From Dust to Days

I woke with dust in my coat And a name nobody knew

I had two hands and a road So I made one thing

true (ohhh)

Mama left coffee on the stove

Daddy left debts by the door

I counted cracks in the kitchen floor

And swore I'd count them no more

Sold my watch for a hammer

Traded sleep for a plan

Every blister wrote a chapter

In the making of a man

Brick by brick, I learned the weight

Of every yes

that came too late

I kept my heart

in working shape (yeah)

I built this life

from the ground up

With a nail, a prayer,

and a little luck

When the rain came hard,

I stood back up

I built this life

from the ground up (ohhh)

I slept in the truck by the mill Washed up in the

station sink Learned how silence can make you strong When you don't

know what to think

Then love found me tired

With sawdust in my hair She said,

son, keep on climbing

There's a roof in all that air

If you see

these hands shaking

It ain't fear, it's memory

Every scar became a railing

On the stairs that carried me

(ahhhh) I built this life

from the ground up

With a nail, a prayer,

and a little luck

When the rain came hard,

I stood back up

I built this life

from the ground up

Now every wall has a window

Every room has a song

If I started with nothing

Then nothing made me strong (yeah)

I woke with dust in my coat Now there's gold in the

grain I built this life from the ground up And I'd do

it all again (ohhh)