He gets up every morning And he lights upon the floor Then migrates to the washroom And he opens up the door The whiskers on his chin tell him he's in and then Through the paste and the soap He sees his image without hope He's a broom of a fellow An oddity in parenthesis So infected with disease of yellow dirt down in his soul He usually spends his spare time Counting hairs upon his arm The ants around the cupboard To his thinking add their charm He never stops to notice That his shoes are fulla lead He's dead through cough And labored breathing he is seething He's a sandwich of a fellow An all-spread personality So infected with disease of yellow dirt down in his soul Last night a thousand stars were his To mold like clay and so In one split second's anger He did reach and take a hold He saw himself a captain way off on some kissin' situation That would have made his father proud He laughs out loud He conceals the hurt He reveals the dirt The yellow dirt down in his soul Yellow dirt down in his soul Yellow dirt down in his soul Yellow dirt down in his soul He's got his dirt down in his soul He's got his dirt down in his soul, now, now He's got his dirt down in his soul He's got his dirt down in his soul, now, now He's got his dirt down in his soul It would have made his father proud He laughs out loud He conceals the hurt He reveals the dirt The yellow dirt down in his soul Yellow dirt down in his soul Yellow dirt down in his soul Yellow dirt down in his soul Yellow dirt down in his soul Yellow dirt down in his soul Yellow dirt down in his soul