Fallow Fields Collapse

Three generations carved into the red clay

Swallowed every summer just to make it pay

Now the gravel trucks line up by the gate

Signed the deed away,

sealed up our fate

Let the tractor rust,

let the silos fall

There is no pride left hanging on the wall

(break it down)

Tear down the barn,

rip up the timber beams

Pour out the diesel on a dead man's dreams

The earth will remember what we tore apart

A hundred years of blood

with an empty heart

Grandfather's name faded off the mailbox post

Now yellow steel crawlers chewing up a ghost

Plowed the cedar grove,

cracked the stone well dry

Nothing blooms beneath an asphalt sky

Tear down the barn,

rip up the timber beams

Pour out the diesel on a dead man's dreams

The earth will remember what we tore apart

A hundred years of blood

with an empty heart

No heirloom lasts,

no title stays clean

Just iron blades cutting through what used to be green

(burn it all down)

Nothing left to inherit

Nothing left to keep

Just flat grey limestone

Where the ancestors sleep