Rise Up in the Dirt Lyrics

Too many times you're gonna go out river walking

Too many times you come home late

Too many times you suck yourself out of the scenery

Makes you wanna go straight

It makes you wanna go straight

Too many times you trade the bottle for the body

One drop for breath and one for skin

You say nobody knows the truth about your body

You look tired and thin

Oh you tired and thin

But if I were a good man

Would it really happen

Would you walk me home then, everyday from work?

But maybe I'm a good man, wait and let it happen

I believe in love, I'm married to my work

'Cause I could be your father, I could be your brother

I could be your flower, rise up in the dirt

We were born to live here, we were born to die here

And you know this when you work

Yeah, you watch me when you work

When you are free from the work of this house

Will you know what to do with your hands

Listen, I'm sure you've got a few ideas

And when you wake from the shell of this body

Oh will you sink your ghost in a man?

Listen I hope you've got something better up your sleeve

Too many times you bleed your love dry for your family

And mull it over in your sleep

Roll over twice and hold the burden like a man

Something you can keep, something you can keep

You smell the scent of something burning in the kitchen

He smells the future on the lawn

These are the things we come to recognize as truth

We cut the right into wrong, we cut the right into wrong

But if I were a good man

Would it really happen

Would you walk me home then everyday from work?

But maybe I'm a good man, wait and let it happen

I believe in love, I'm married to my work

'Cause I could be your father, I could be your brother

I could be your flower, rise up in the dirt

We were born to live here, we were born to die here

And you know this when you work

Yeah, you watch me when you work

It seems that we used to live like rebels

But now we get scared like our parents

Our struggle and fade

It's just a waste of money

And when you wake up tomorrow my son

Oh you will be the father of something terrible

It will shine throughout your life

Oh, it will shine throughout your life

Oh, it will shine throughout your life

But it won't bury you

'Cause we know

Somewhere in the darkness

You will find love, baby you will find love

Somewhere in the darkness

You will find love, baby you will find love

You will feel young again

Oh, you will feel young again

Oh, you will feel young again

And you will feel young