verse 1 Am Engineer says there's a body on the tracks F E Draped in greens and raging rain and want F E F E Am The color gray was creeping in like bones, like timeless days verse 2 Am Phrases left his body and his memories on those tracks F E Calmed his mind and left his flesh and bones E F E For where are the things? F Am The shallow digs now he calls The Swamp his home verse 3 Am Baby told the navy to go bring him back F E Said the eyes have gone and made him leave E F E She cause a simple plee: F E Am Make them pay and make them bring my baby back to me verse 4 Am Oh engineer says there's a body on the tracks F E Dancing slow and looking left for dead F E F E Phrases dreams of simple things Am And the fall of men