Verse
Gm
Engineer says there's a body on the tracks
D# D
Draped in greens and raging rain and want
D# D D# D Gm
The color gray was creeping in like bones, like timeless days
[Verse 2]
Gm
Phrases left his body and his memories on those tracks
D# D
Calmed his mind and left his flesh and bones
D D# D
For where are the things?
D# Gm
The shallow digs now he calls The Swamp his home
[Verse 3]
Gm
Baby told the navy to go bring him back
D# D
Said the eyes have gone and made him leave
D D# D
She cause a simple plee:
D# D Gm
Make them pay and make them bring my baby back to me
[Verse 4]
Gm
Oh engineer says there's a body on the tracks
D# D
Dancing slow and looking left for dead
D# D D# D
Phrases dreams of simple things
Gm
And the fall of men