Gravedigger I Lyrics

Well I've been digging these graves since the age of thirteen

You know I've seen a few things, not enough to make me ever lose sleep

'Cause mangled bodies filled with bullet holes and broken bones are nothing to fear

After all it was the living ones that put them in here

Took my lady out to get a few beers in the year of '05

It was kind of loud, but the crowd began to thin out by around about nine

I met a man named Ricky, more he drank the more his arrogance grew

With just the three of us left, he went to smoke a cigarette around two

Well Ricky came back in to show us something that he found by his car

He never handled a gun, but it was fun to wave around in the bar

And then a flash and a crash and my baby's calling out my name

He didn't mean to pull the trigger, but I figure it was over the same

So Ricky dropped the gun and started running straight for the back door

And the bartender nodded as he swore that he ain't seen me before

So I grabbed it and went after him, the bastard burned some holes in my shoes

But when we came up to the river, there was nowhere else for him to run to

He started beggin' and a-cryin', didn't mean for anybody to die

But all his bitchin' and a-whinin' wasn't gonna bring my baby to life

So I raised the nine, and as I did my vision started to blur

And when I came back to, the only thing that I could see was her

Well I can see her sometimes when I'm digging in the dead of the night

Just screaming to me, baby please don't let me die

And Ricky's been missing for some time, but they can't find a damn thing

He's got a head full of lead and he's buried six feet under my feet