Standard (EADGBE)

Intro

(something like this)

IN AN OPEN FIELD AT DUSK

TO FOOTFALLS I AWOKE

MARCHING ANTS ACROSS MY TEMPLES, OH

THEIR FEET HAD NO INTENTION

THEY FOLLOWED SOME MAGNETIC DRUM

PRISONERS OF THEIR DESTINATION

Verse 1

FROM THE SLATS OF THE FACTORY COME

WHERE ONCE THEY DID MAKE RAILS

OLD DEATH'S PECULIAR SONGS

 HE DIDN'T KNOW I WAS LISTENING

Verse 2

SO HE CROWED OUT NICE AND LONG

 TO THE SPIDERS AND THE LUMBER AND THE DUST

 OF HIS CONQUESTS AND HIS HUNGER, HIS LUST

Verse 3

I HEARD HIS FEET REJOICE

I HEARD HIM TAP HIS CANE

 AS IF HE HAD HIS OWN REVIEW

 ON STAGE AT THE ATHENAEUM

Verse 4

 I CAUGHT HIS WORDS WITH MY OPEN MOUTH

 I GAGGED AND CHOKED AND SPIT THEM OUT

 I HEARD HIM TURN AS HE DID HEAR

 MY TINY HEARTBEAT IN HIS EAR

I WAS ALREADY RUNNING

I HEARD HIM COMING

Verse 5

SHRAPNEL SPITTING FROM HIS WHEELS

HIS SCYTHING ARMS RAKE FOR MY HEELS

I DOVE AND ROLLED AND HID MY FACE

 AND I SAID THESE MAGIC WORDS:

Chorus

"MY DOVE IS HOME, HER BREAST IS WARM, MY DOVE IS HOME"

I SAID THESE MAGIC WORDS AND

 FELL DOWN, DOWN, THE ANTHILL

FOR DAYS

"MY DOVE IS HOME, HER BREAST IS WARM, MY DOVE IS HOME"

"MY DOVE IS HOME, HER BREAST IS WARM, MY DOVE IS HOME"