Testo Chains and Tide - Elliott Palmer
Testo della canzone Chains and Tide (Elliott Palmer), tratta dall'album Chains and Tide
Boots hit the boards before the sun can rise
Coffee in a thermos, sleep still in my eyes
Salt in my lungs, steel in my bones
This dock dont care what a man calls home
Pullin' chains through oil and rust
My knuckles crack, but I don't fuss
The tide rolls in, the tide rolls out
I show up, that's what I'm about
It's chains and tide, day and night
Loading dreams under floodlight
Ain't no gold but I earn my pride
By the sweat I leave on this riverside
Chains and tide and I still stand
Just a hard-luck man with calloused hands
I write poems, I got pain I have
A thousand aches I can't explain
But when the wind cuts off the bay
I breathe it in, and I'm okay
Folks talk of freedom like it's far away
But I find mine in the grind each day
A steel hook swings, I catch, I pull
A job half-dead still makes me whole
It's chains and tide, gravel and grit
Every load's got a story in it
We don't pray loud but we still try
Lookin' for grace 'neath a storm-gray sky
Chains and tide... we don't complain
We just carry the weight and work through the rain
My old man died with salt on his skin
Said, "This dock'll break you, then teach you to bend."
And I've bent, Lord, but I ain't broke
Still swingin' that winch, still breathin' that smoke
It's chain and tide, flesh and stone
Fixin' leaks in a world overgrown
We ain't saints but we don't hide
We live by the water, we live with pride
Chains and tide... and I'll die known
As the man who stood when he stood alone
Chains and tide... and I go home
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