Diggin' My Own Grave

From the Alligator Records release Fire It Up (AL 4852)
By Tinsley Ellis

Diggin' My Own Grave (Walker & Mirkitani)

Four foot down a six foot hole
Head first in the mud and cold
My good sense is all but spent
My pick is dull my shovel's bent

I been workin' it
Workin' it fast and hard
I been slippin'
Slippin' way too far
I been diggin'
My own grave

Turn on the face with a deadly grin
I scratch and claw in a bed of sin
And I wait alone but it's hard to tell
This ain't ever-lovin' hell

I been workin' it
Workin' it fast and hard
I been slippin'
Slippin' way too far

That woman in trouble's all I crave
I been diggin'
My own grave

(solo)

Five foot down with a serpent's crawl
It's hard to hear the rapture's call
But now I don't care what they see
Just throw that dirt all over me
Wooo!

I been workin' it
Workin' it fast and hard
I been slippin'
Slippin' way too far

That woman in trouble's all I crave
I been diggin'
My own grave
Diggin' my own grave, yeah
Wooo!