[chorus:] 
bodies 
please 
don't cry 
bodies 
don't die 
bodies 
please don't cry 
bodies 

i been taking all the silver 
i been saving 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 rasing up the dead 
gonna send them to the house of cain 
i been praying in light 
of the warning moon 
slay your doggone soul 
i been put upon this world 
i been walking up and down 
to and fro 
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