[Instrumental Intro]

[Chorus]

Bodies, please don't cry

Bodies, don't die

Bodies, please don't cry

Bodies

[Verse 1]

I been taking all the silver

I been saving all the gold

I'm gonna stuff it down the throat of a weak, old corpse

Save that doggone soul

I been saving up my pain

I'm gonna give it back in spades

I been strangling the cries from the murder of love

Save your soul tonight

[Chorus]

Bodies, please don't cry

Bodies, don't die

Bodies, please don't cry

Bodies

(I'm gonna save!)

[Guitar Solo]

[Verse 2]

I been raising up the dead

Gonna send them to the house of Cain

I been praying in the light of the waning moon

Slay your doggone soul

I've been taken out of Heaven

I been put upon this world

I been walking up and down, to and fro

Save your doggone soul

[Chorus]

Bodies, please don't cry

Bodies, don't die

Bodies, please don't cry

Bodies

[Post-Chorus]

I got bodies on the left

I got bodies on the right

I got bodies up and down, all across town

Save your soul tonight

Bodies, please don't cry

Bodies

[Outro]

Come on, take it home

Come on, take 'em back

Come on, take 'em back home