chorus:

bodies please don't cry

bodies please don't die

bodies please don't cry

bodies



i been taking all the silver

i been taking all the gold

i'm gonna stuff it down the throat

of a week old corpse

save that doggone soul

i been saving up my pain

i'm gonna give it back in spades

i been strangling the cries

from the murder of love

save your soul tonight



i been raising up the dead

gonna send them to the house of cain

i been praying in light

of the waning moon

slay your doggone soul

i been taken out of heaven

i been put upon this world

i been walking up and down

to and from

save your doggone soul



i got bodies on the left

i got bodies on the right

i got bodies up and down

all across town

save your soul tonight