《Barbed Wire Boys》歌词

[00:00:01] Barbed Wire Boys - Claire Lynch

[00:00:04] Well I come from the rural midwest

[00:00:09] It's the land I love more than all the rest

[00:00:14] It's the place I know and understand

[00:00:19] Like a false front building

[00:00:21] Like the back of my hand

[00:00:23] And the men I knew when I was coming up

[00:00:28] Were sober as coffee in a styrofoam cup

[00:00:33] There were Earls and Rays Harlans and Roys

[00:00:38] They were full-grown men

[00:00:40] They were barbed wire boys

[00:00:45] They raised grain and cattle

[00:00:47] On the treeless fields

[00:00:50] Sat at the head of the table

[00:00:52] And prayed before meals

[00:00:55] Prayed an our father and that was enough

[00:01:00] Pray more than that and you couldn't stay tough

[00:01:04] Tough as the busted thumbnails

[00:01:07] On the weathered hands

[00:01:09] They worked the gold plate off their wedding bands

[00:01:14] And they never complained

[00:01:16] No they never made noise

[00:01:19] And they never left home

[00:01:21] These barbed wire boys

[00:01:24] Cause their wildest dreams were all fenced in

[00:01:29] By the weight of family

[00:01:31] By the feeling of sin

[00:01:34] That'll prick your skin at the slightest touch

[00:01:38] If you reach too far if you feel too much

[00:01:43] So their deepest hopes will never were expressed

[00:01:48] And just beat like bird's wings

[00:01:50] In the cage of their chest

[00:01:53] All the restless longings all the secret joys

[00:01:57] That never were set free

[00:01:59] In the barbed wire boys

[00:02:43] And now one by one they're departing this earth

[00:02:48] And it's clear to me now exactly what they're worth

[00:02:53] Oh they were just like atlas holding up the sky

[00:02:57] You never heard him speak

[00:03:00] You never saw him cry

[00:03:02] But where do the tears go

[00:03:05] That you never shed

[00:03:07] Where do the words go

[00:03:10] That you never said

[00:03:12] Well there's a blink of the eye

[00:03:14] There's a catch in the voice

[00:03:17] That is the unsung song

[00:03:21] Of the barbed wire boys