Rolled in the mud

But I could never come clean

Counting blessings on my middle finger

There in the back shed

Pricing heads to the pound

Told to shut up, I was only breathin'



Hell's soup kitchen

There you're listening now

Heard you coming

I heard you deep in the ground



The job was dizzy on the carnival wheel

Coins a-flipping a siren's screaming

Told quit the ride

And you'll go straight to the dogs

But dogs they come home

And dogs they listen



Hell's soup kitchen

There you're listening now

Heard you coming

I heard you deep in the ground



And my nerves were wire

And the shots they fell wide

Pearls of wisdom dripping from my forehead

Crawled in a sleeping bag

And watched them close in

Tires spitting all my trust to the sky



Hell's soup kitchen

There you're listening now

Heard you coming

I heard you deep in the ground