Salt the Earth - The Devil and the Almighty Blues

No stone to be placed on stone

Tear the skin clean off the bones

Leave a place where nothing grows

Never light in these shadows

The heart is a desolate place

Where ghosts roam in the haze

A thousand feet dragging through the snow

The wind is a lonely song of woe

Lick the wounds, dry your tears

Salt the earth

Cut the cord, close the door

Salt the earth

Clear the eyes for all things lost

Clear the heart of the biting frost

Clear the mind for nothing at all

All that rises must eventually fall

Burn the ground you walk upon

Drain the wells, all water’s gone

Curse the sky and curse the rain

Curse the land to be a desert plain

Lick the wounds, dry your tears

Salt the earth

Cut the cord, close the door

Salt the earth

Salt the earth so nothing grows

Salt the earth and leave it to the crows

Salt the earth let everybody know

Never light in these shadows

Never light in these shadows