run your fingers round the cedar grain sweaty neck and rosin sleeves smoothing timber with a rabbet plane back to the grind back to the shapes honey lake 395 hallelujah sweet madeline bodie brings the biggest pines alameda holds your higher mind i meet my maker in the desert and i begged for a heavy lesson find the fire see where the smoke begins follow flames and let them burn your hands you used to sing to me in sweet halftone caramel eyes soft as honeycomb striking iron and turning coal middle of summer in your overalls macon georgia roanoke crooked river 15 501 we all got vices cause the pain still flows we all got things we re afraid to show do you have something to show i meet my maker in the yellow mounds and i listened for the astral sounds black hills bible let the blizzard come i will find you in the setting sun walk me up to grizzly peak take me down to baker beach ride me round okefenokee lead me into chautauqua s teeth stand right in front of me i meet my maker at oceanana pier and i ask if i can keep you here lovers will leave you and you must let them but you will never be the same i meet my maker in the desert and i begged for the heavy lesson find the fire see where the smoke begins follow flames and let them burn your hands
['north carolina indie', 'north carolina roots', 'queer country', 'stomp and flutter']