Hive No Longer

The windmill creaks a rusty song across the Kansas plain

The honey's runnin' thick and gold but I'm the one in chains

His oil rig's a thousand miles of steel against a Texas sky

He sends his money,

not his heart, and I don't ask him why.

The sugar water's gettin' low,

the supers are all full

But I've been waitin' on a man who's married to that bull.

So I'm hivin' a new queen today,

watch her take control

She'll tear the old comb down to build a new and honest

soul The wind blows through the locust trees and I swear I

hear it call

The queen bee's gone and the hive is still and I ain't

waitin' at all.

I found her in a wild swarm,

clung to the fence post line

A dark and battered little thing but with a steady shine

I brushed her off into the box with all the smoke and

grace

She walked right in,

and in that act she took my empty space.

The comb is not a cage,

you see, it's just a place to stay

And you can't keep a woman on a check that's sent away

The hives are loaded on the truck,

the house key's on the door

You'll find my smoker in the barn and my note upon the

floor.

So I'm hivin' a new queen today,

watch her take control

She'll tear the old comb down to build a new and honest

soul The wind blows through the locust trees and I swear I

hear it call The queen bee's gone and the hive is still

and I ain't waitin' at all.

No, I ain't waitin'...

at all.