I made a promise to not let go   Our tug of war has only made me want you more   Steeped in hard luck and doomed to roam   My love is braver than you know   My forefathers they worked this land   And I was schooled in the tyranny of nature’s plans   Dressed in thunder a cloud came round   In the shape of a lion a hand came down      CHORUS   Damn this valley   Damn this cold   Take so long to let me know   It’s plant and reap and plow and sow   But tell me will it grow      Dig my ditches in the golden sun   I’d be robbing these trains if I could catch me one   Sunday Monday now Tuesday’s gone   Got me stone cold sober in a drought so long   Boarded mansions and ghost filled yards   There’s a boy in a water tower counting cars   Steel traps open and empty stalls   There’s a well-worn saddle but the horse is gone      CHORUS      Jet black starlit midnight rolls   I am down in the garden where I let go   Here on the surface the earth looks round   But it’s a Godless city of cold flat ground      CHORUS