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Tracks — Dzhai - Rust ( Feat Melina ). Machine-transcribed; use the interactive transcript above to jump the player to any line.
The screen door mums against the wind Red dust settles on everything The creeps been stoned since early May, Pots still walks the fields each day He kneels and breaks the dirt into Like there's something left that he can do There's rust on the plow Weaves in the road, the windows stained Sweet dawn, wanna know Thirty years in a callus tan Now blowing away with the promise land
No thunder coming, no mercy now Just another rest lane on the old steel plow Mama keeps six jars on the shelf Moves them around like that might help Custolars loaf thin as she can Said she's now hungry, feeds the old man tonight I hear it through the wall, praying low, so Paul won't hear it all There's rust on the plow Weaves in the road, the windows stained Sweet dawn, wanna know Thirty years in a callus tan Now blowing away with the promise land No thunder coming, no mercy now Just another rest lane on the old steel Pots the six foot two in the Sunday clothes When the banker pulled up Down the road he signed one page Then one page more Mama never came out the kitchen door He folded the paper, stared at the floor
And somehow stood six foot two No more We packed the truck before first light Mama took the Bible part, took nothing I found standing by the gate Looking at the fields we learned to hate He touched that plow like an old friend's hand And climbed inside and left the land His rust on the plow Weaves in the road, the windows stained Sweet dawn, wanna know Thirty years in a callus tan Now blowing away with the promise land The rain came down three towns away But never touched our fields that day
Years from now If I passed that way Maybe that old plow will still remain Half in the earth Half eating good Holding the place where something grew
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