Girlyman - Break Me Slow lyrics

rate me

Build me a home on the Gulf Coast

Where lightning lights up all the life boats

And beds float away just like freed ghosts

When the hurricanes come to call

I've got bricks still to lay of my own fate

Like cards that you weigh under tables

I never could have my hand both ways

So the winner takes it all

Lay my body low

Save me once then let me go

I'll pay every cent that I owe

Just break me slow

Give me a farm on the west coast

Where blackberries climb over fence posts

And barefoot and breezy on back roads

And water turns to wine

Well over and out, I've got to forge

Can't sing one more note of this ragged score

I've run out of scraps for the very poor

Scratching at my mind

Lay my sins down low

Burn me once, now let me go

I'll reap every trouble I sow

Just break me, break me slow

So find me a field on the flood plain

Where storm chasers drive into dark rain

And lay me down flat in the cornrows

As a sound like a freight train grows

Lay this burden low

You told me once, now I should know

I'll shoulder each debt that I owe

Just break me, break me slow