chorus:
 bodiesplease don't cry
 bodiesdon't die
 bodiesplease 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 bodiesup and down
all across town
 save your soul tonight