Testo All That You Need - Smit
Testo della canzone All That You Need (Smit), tratta dall'album Streets Of Sin
I've been working on the farm
Just me and my brother Jack
Chopping a sea of cotton
Till I thought I'd break my back
Everything changed when my daddy got hurt
Our lives were so connected to
That brown old flat land earth
When the government man from Austin
Comes sniffing around our land
Asking a bunch of questions
That we did not understand
There's more to farming cotton
Than just tending to your seed
But the ones who set the policy
Don't give a damn about our needs
Sow the seed in the ground below
Fall to your knees and pray real slow
That the rain will come and kiss the seed
And bless you with all that you need
Well, Momma says to Jackie
Would she bring the car around?
She's wearing her finest dress
That's how I know she's going to town
I wish I'd never seen that letter
I found there in her room
They're selling the farm on the courthouse steps
This Saturday afternoon
Well, me and Jack moved into town
To a shack by the train depot
Jack got a job as a bouncer
At a bar on Paradise Row
Momma got a job at the cotton gin
Grading cotton by the bale
She cried when a trailer full of cotton come in
From the farm we had to sell
Sow the seed in the ground below
Fall to your knees and pray real slow
That the rain will come and kiss the seed
And bless you with all that you need
Me, I ended up in jail
Sick of living on welfare
And the hardest thing ever happened to me
Was when Momma come to visit me there
"Don't you worry your pretty little head"
I said as I buttoned my shirt
"When I get out of this iron hotel
I'm going back to that dry-land earth
For some it's just a living
But for us it's our whole life
If it kills me I'm gonna rake that dirt
And make a living out of toil and strife
The ways of the city make no sense
Strapped to dependency
I'd rather be sweating 'neath the clear blue sky
Planting cotton with my family"
(You goddamn right)
Sow the seed in the ground below
Fall to your knees and pray real slow
That the rain will come and kiss the seed
And bless you with all that you need
Sow the seed in the ground below
Fall to your knees and pray real slow
That the rain will come and kiss the seed
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Writer(s): Joe Ely
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