Track Insight / Lyrics
Dust motes dance in amber light
Bayou breathes a humid night
Shadows stretch and whispers call
Old machines remember all
Rusty gears and weathered wood
Stories lost, misunderstood
Black gold rising from the ground
A forgotten, haunting sound
Cypress knees in murky streams
Reflecting broken, fading dreams
A kingdom built on liquid grace
Lost within this lonely place
Cypress and steel, a tangled vine
Where fortunes rise and shadows climb
Drilling deep into the earth
Searching for a second birth
Pumpjack nodding, slow and deep
Secrets that the bayou keeps
Oil slick rainbows, bittersweet
A ghostly rhythm, can't be beat
Cypress knees in murky streams
Reflecting broken, fading dreams
A kingdom built on liquid grace
Lost within this lonely place
Cypress and steel, a tangled vine
Where fortunes rise and shadows climb
Drilling deep into the earth
Searching for a second birth
Grandpa's hands, calloused and worn
Working 'til the break of dawn
He chased the promise, silver bright
Lost his soul to endless night
Cypress and steel, a tangled vine
Where fortunes rise and shadows climb
Drilling deep into the earth
Searching for a second birth
The derricks stand like silent ghosts
Of labor lost and heavy costs
The water whispers of the pain
Washing over fields of cane
Cypress and steel, a tangled vine
Where fortunes rise and shadows climb
Drilling deep into the earth
Searching for a second birth
Empty towns and hollowed eyes
Beneath these vast and open skies
A legacy of blackest gold
A story tragically untold
Cypress and steel, a tangled vine
Where fortunes rise and shadows climb
Drilling deep into the earth
Searching for a second birth
Rust and water, time and tide
The bayou's secrets still reside
Cypress and steel, forever bound
Lost and found, on hallowed ground.
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