Shallow Graves Lyrics - Elvis Costello

When I fall in endless sleep 

I hope that I'll be buried deep 

Let me be the one that fortune favours 

Even good children got shallow graves 

Throw another clown to the lions 

Throw another Joan on the blaze 

Cast me away on the cruel calm ocean 

and leave me for days and days and days and days and days 

I won't lie in this poor shallow grave 

I won't lie, I won't lie in this poor shallow grave 

Dig me down deep where the dead men sleep 

I won't lie in this poor shallow grave 

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Dig me down deep where the dead men sleep 

I won't lie in this poor shallow grave 

Dig me down deep where the dead men sleep 

I won't lie in this poor shallow grave 

Dig me down, dig me down, dig me down deep 

I won't lie in this poor shallow grave