Ghosts on the hard shoulder
With eyes like guillotines
Never getting older
Here's where we cut our teeth
Skeleton procession
A hungry moth-eaten fleet
With our eerie cargo
Borne from the gallows seat
When they come to claim us
In coal black hearses
Laid in the laps
Of the morbid nurses
Coal black hearses
Coal black hearses
With your eyes of cessation
With all your organs removed
With your death full of flowers
It's time to bid farewell to you
Husbands remember dead lovers
Wives tend to their bitter corpse
Old-time valued friendships
These things won't matter anymore
Your face in palsy
Quiet while the sad surgeon is at work
All your useless photographs
We'll build you a smile
While your lips kiss the box
When they come to claim us
In coal black hearses
Laid in the laps
Of the morbid nurses
Coal black hearses
Coal black hearses
You dug your grave inside my skull
You drew dead names on my flesh
You hollowed the marrow out of my bones
You scratched your signs on my tomb...
With eyes like guillotines
Never getting older
Here's where we cut our teeth
Skeleton procession
A hungry moth-eaten fleet
With our eerie cargo
Borne from the gallows seat
When they come to claim us
In coal black hearses
Laid in the laps
Of the morbid nurses
Coal black hearses
Coal black hearses
With your eyes of cessation
With all your organs removed
With your death full of flowers
It's time to bid farewell to you
Husbands remember dead lovers
Wives tend to their bitter corpse
Old-time valued friendships
These things won't matter anymore
Your face in palsy
Quiet while the sad surgeon is at work
All your useless photographs
We'll build you a smile
While your lips kiss the box
When they come to claim us
In coal black hearses
Laid in the laps
Of the morbid nurses
Coal black hearses
Coal black hearses
You dug your grave inside my skull
You drew dead names on my flesh
You hollowed the marrow out of my bones
You scratched your signs on my tomb...