death sound blues

Singer:country joe and the fish

i hear that death sound

baby

oh

like an echo in my brain

i hear that death sound

baby

oh

like an echo in my brain

brain

well

there's a part of us dying

you know that things will never be the same

ah

never be the same. i feel the black nails a-poundin' now

yes

into the coffin of our love

hear the black nails a-poundin' now

yes

into the coffin of our love

well

like a black shrouded hunter now

don't you know that i have killed a snow white dove

oh

i've killed the dove. well

the time sands keep a-fallin' now

on towards our ending day

yeah

the time sands keep a-fallin'

towards our ending day

i see the minutes chasing the hours

yes

to the words that we should say

ah

we should say.