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“Dirt In The Ground”-Tom Waits

Anyone not familiar with Tom Waits can email me and I will MAKE you a compilation! Well, okay, maybe the first 5 people who are that interested. But anyway, this track comes from his “Bone Machine” album, which is not only somewhat experimental, but death fixated as well. The majority of the album is played on various percussion instruments with some various bass, guitar, and piano tracks mixed in. Waits’ lyrics are good enough to stand on their own, especially on this tune. In the second verse, he describes the execution of a murderer by hanging, describing his ascent to the gallows, subsequent hanging, and the executioner saying that no matter who we are, “We’re all gonna be just Dirt In The Ground.”
Morbid as it sounds, it paints a great picture, as do the rest of the tracks on this album. And ultimately that is really what Waits is, in addition to being a great songwriter: He is a painter of words.