Dirt In The Ground (track)
by Tom Waits
Year: 1992
From the album Bone Machine (track #2)
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Dirt In The Ground appears on the following album(s) by Tom Waits:
- Bone Machine (track #2) (this album) (1992)
- Glitter And Doom Live (track #5) (2009)
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| ! | 01/14/2026 16:26 | Exist-en-ciel | 167,020 | 71/100 |
| ! | 09/25/2025 05:53 |  JR | 3,538 | 88/100 |
| ! | 07/27/2025 02:14 |  AAL2014 | 40,007 | 76/100 |
| ! | 08/25/2024 23:12 |  ExTeaSea | 12,981 | 85/100 |
| ! | 06/20/2024 16:34 | Fevernova | 34,542 | 82/100 |
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This is really at the core of blues. Existential dread blues.
Mother Nature's Son 04/14/2014 19:11 | #109248
"We're chained to the world and we all gotta pull". Such a depressing line.
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