God's Country (feat. Wicca Phase Springs Eternal)

The road is longer than it is hard

With no one to guide you

And no one to hold

No best foot forward to sway the odds

And just a voice inside you

And a stone to throw

Could you be someone else

If someone else is what I need?

But I shouldn't ask that of you

When you're old, you'll understand

But we're hurting now, so what are we to do till then?

Cradling pictures of you

It was a highway to nowhere, and we rode it

Cold car with no gas and we chose it

Soft bodies playing in the street

Our kids will grow up with half as much

Trying to build something out of dust

Finding out too late what they need

You've tasted love and it tasted sweet

You drank the blood and bit the meat

You hold it, you hold it, you let it go

You close your eyes and count to three

You say the word and come to me

Baby, I know

Drive the pathway through the pines

And the moors of mystery

Welcome conflict and let crisis come and shake the ground beneath

And the family secret hiding

In the farmhouse down the street

Rushes open door on your front porch and shadows me

Taken and entirely, I embraced the bonny beast

Over hills and highlands, we rode hard the passing peaks

Danger liked the virgin wife, beside me she would sleep

Cherry was her dad's truck that she crashed at seventeen

I kneel before what temper broke the branches on the beach

And those thrilling highs and southern nights are always out of reach

I learned a lesson

I need to pray hard, final hours, take care of me, God

Take care of me, God

You've tasted love and it tasted sweet

You drank the blood and bit the meat

You hold it, you hold it, you let it go

You close your eyes and count to three

You say the word and come to me

Baby, I know

The road is longer than it is hard

Love overwhelms me

With no one to guide you

It's all that I want, and it's all that we have

No best foot forward to sway the odds

But is it enough?

Just a voice inside you

To make it worth it in the end

Don't sink in me with your dog teeth

Don't sink in me with your dog teeth

Don't sink in me with your dog teeth

Don't sink in me

Don't sink in me with your dog teeth

Teeth

You've tasted love and it tasted sweet

You drank the blood and bit the meat

You hold it, you hold it, but you'll never know

You close your eyes and cry to me

Don't sink in me with your dog teeth

We're better off if you let go

In God's country

In God's country

If it was harder then

It will be better now

For I am here and changed

I couldn't tell you how

And there before the grace of God go I

Laughing to myself

Forgetting what about