Dust Behind the Plow

from Welcome to the Rockhouse by Josh Allen and the Whisky Brothers

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You turn and go back now
When there's nobody home
You stepped on the cracks
And now you take to the throne
You sit down, you skin up
Put some clothes on and rise
With the steam from the coffee cup
And the smoke in your eyes

What worked before don't work no more
Ain't nothin' to be done

I sank a stone back east
Skipped a second to the west
Slipped away to find some peace
Now I'm just lookin' for some rest
Even if the roots go deeper
I got my branches in the sky
I can't be nobody's keeper
I need my room to multiply

I been chasin' down the mountains
I been jumpin' high as hell
I scraped the faces off the fountains
Dropped the bodies down the well
At least the sky is wide
And the horizon ain't too near
There's no place here to hide
But there ain't nothin' left to fear

What worked before don't work no more
Ain't nothin' to be done

You step back for a minute
That's all you've got to do
You don't need to be there in it
Just to know that it's there in you
And the smoke around your head
It feels like dust behind the plow
As you stand up to go to bed
You know that's good enough for now

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from Welcome to the Rockhouse, released March 15, 2008

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