curse the sky

sometimes in the summer

it'll lightnin'

it'll thunder

but the rain don't seem to come it rolls on by

thunder sounds like laughter

as the lightning hits the pasture

and you know that has lands been dry for some time

and it burns

and it burns

oh it burns

the river it stopped flowin' back through town some time ago

and the train tracks rest below a bed of weeds

the truck stop shut its door on the day that oil hit a hundred and four

dollars a barrel yall then the grocery store came next and then the bank

and it burns

oh it burns

it burns

oh it burns

yeah it burns

oh it burns

you do the things you know to just to make it day by day

you can hear the kids a cryin'

but there's just no time to play

you work the way you know how just the way you've always done

and you'd like to curse the skies that bring no rain and block the sun

and it burns

sometimes when it's rainin' and there seems there ain't no stoppin' and a storm surge rushes past and all goes down

that river roars with laughter as it strips away the pasture land the home you built and work for your own hands

and it rains

oh it rains

yeah it rains

and it rains

oh it rains

yeah it rains

you do the things you know to just to make it day by day

you can hear the kids a cryin' but there's just no time to play

you work the way you know how just the way you've always done

and you'd like to curse the skies that bring the rain and block the sun

and it rains

sometimes in the summer it'll lightnin'

it'll thunder

but the rain don't seem to come it rolls on by