Album: "Goodbye From Venus"
Song: "TRAILER FULL OF CROSSES"
Track: 01
Audio Sample: mp3

TRAILER FULL OF CROSSES

I was talking to a friend who said he saw a trailer full of crosses
piled high and painted white
it was hooked up to a tractor, like maybe they were moving some old
graveyard it was a wide wide day
I thought of all the hope and love and dreams and grief and promises
and heartache that you can pile on a trailer
and leave it in the wind to dry, beneath the sun that cuts the sky hard
through a wide wide day

so I was thinking about this girl I met one time whose eyes were grey
and lifeless questions like she'd forgotten things she used to know
she said I grew up down in tennessee
my daddy had his hair cut just like elvis
he was a preacher at the corner church
and every Sunday morning took his sermon from the bottom of a
bottle he had an eye for the ladies
so now it's desert moons and motel rooms, magazines an
movie queens and hey ain't this a wide wide day

and do you remember
when we drove down to the river's edge
I swore to you that we would never die
and we let our headlights shine across towards mexico
and talked about Jesus
all the while the river flowed
across the valley thunder rolled
the truth we tell the lies we feel
the love we give the love we steal
I'm still waiting
hey hey the river winds and still I find I'm thinking about those
crosses piled high and painted white
the ground is hard the hole's been dug
over and over and over and over
it makes me want to take my boy and hold him hard and tell him
that I know that this world is gonna learn to love
and there's a place the river winds and silver turquoise shines
through a wide wide day

and do you remember
when we drove down to the river's edge
I swore to you that we would never die
and we let our headlights shine across towards mexico
and talked about Jesus

Buck Storm / c. 2001 Papa Humix Music / ASCAP