GRAVE WIND (Alt 1)

Intro

Verse 1 There's a hill behind the old church Where my people disappear Names cut deep in Georgia granite Dates get shorter every year Granddad lies beside his brother Never spoke after the war Mama said they both came home But neither one came through the door I hadn't climbed that hill in ages Till the road brought me back in Then the grass leaned all together And I felt that grave wind

Refrain Grave wind Cold across my skin Carrying the names Of every man I've ever been Grave wind Don't tell me where I've gone I can hear my blood behind me Every time you blow

Verse 2 Found my father's stone at sundown Still looked newer than the rest Put my hand across his surname Felt it sitting in my chest He had anger like a furnace I swore I'd never carry mine Twenty years of keeping promises And I broke that one on time There are things a man inherits That no lawyer ever reads A jaw that locks A hand that shakes A hunger no one sees You can change your house Your road Your God Your name if you insist But blood remembers shortcuts That the mind pretends don't exist

Refrain Grave wind Blowing through the pines Dragging all those old mistakes Across another life Grave wind You can call me what you will I'm not every man behind me But I hear them in me still So I stood there till the daylight Lost the last edge of the hill Didn't ask them for forgiveness Didn't promise I'd be still I just turned my collar upward Took the long road home again And somewhere behind the churchyard The wind said my name again

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