Fred Eaglesmith - Sunflowers lyrics

rate me

Well there's cars in the driveway as you turn into the yard

The casket's in the living room

You look away and swallow hard

Someone hands you a bottle

And you don't know who they are

Funny, how you used to know everybody in these parts

And you hardly knew the dead man

Though you spoke a time or to

And he had a wife and two small children

And he lived just like you do

And he died on his tractor

Holding his end down

Forty acres left to plant

And forty in the ground

But he never had a chance

It's what they're saying now

The bank was going to walk in any day, anyhow

And it makes you kind of wonder

As you watch the daylight burn

Wonder if he knew it

Wonder if he'd heard

She's got a crooked smile

And there's dark around her eyes

She says she knows she's got to get on with her life

And you stand off alone

And look to where the sun sets

Someone says we ain't seen the last of it yet

And he died on his tractor

Holding his end down

Forty acres left to plant

And forty in the ground

And he never had a chance

That's what they're saying now

The bank was going to walk in any day, anyhow

And it makes you kind of wonder

As you watch the daylight burn

Wonder if he knew it

Wonder if he'd heard

There's a crop of yellow sunflowers

In the field across the way

Makes you sorta grin

As you're coming down the lane

Three hundred bucks a ton

It's what they said at plantin' time

But when it comes to harvest

It wasn't worth a dime