Green Grass Over My Feet

Verse 1 I wish my baby was born with dirt already in his pockets sitting on his father’s knee while the porch light flickered a warning I wish my name was a nail hammered crooked through a fencepost instead of drifting underneath the cottonwood and the black roots The creek forgot my face The dogs forgot my smell Only the weeds remember where I fell Chorus Green grass over my feet Green grass over my feet Earth keeps another mouth Hidden behind its teeth And every spring it whispers things it never says to me Green grass over my feet Verse 2 The moon hangs low as a butcher’s hook above the soybean fields The dead are turning slowly like gears beneath the wheels A crow drags sunset through the ditch by one wing The whole sky sounds like a screen door singing Chorus Green grass over my feet Green grass over my feet Roots keep pulling me down Rain keeps pulling me free Somewhere my baby’s laughing where I used to be Green grass over my feet Bridge I am not lonely Just occupied These worms build cathedrals inside my eyes These rivers carry names Nobody speaks Green grass growing over my feet Final Chorus Green grass over my feet Green grass over my feet The world never learned my address but this dirt remembers me