They buried her in borrowed clothes With copper coins upon her eyes They said the earth would keep her still They never thought the earth could lie The wooden coffin filled with rain The roots came winding through the seams She heard them laughing up above As worms began to eat her dreams A little bell, a length of string They tied it to her lifeless hand But when she pulled, the bell was gone And no one came to understand The earth will have her! The earth will have its due! The earth will have her! And she is coming back for you! She clawed the timber into dust She chewed the shroud between her teeth She followed voices through the mud And felt the cold ground start to breathe The graveyard keeper heard a knock He put his ear against the stone She whispered softly from below You should have left me well alone The earth will have her! The earth will have its due! The earth will have her! And she is coming back for you! Six feet down Six feet deep You buried what You could not keep No blood to spill No breath to draw The dirt remembers What it saw She stood beneath the cemetery gate With mud and maggots in her hair She saw the men who sealed her grave And found them waiting unaware They ran before she reached the road Their voices cracking through the night She never needed to pursue The earth would swallow them by light The earth will have her! The earth will have its due! The earth will have her! And now the earth is coming for you! They buried her She rose again The earth remembers Every name
