Rust & River Mud

Verse

Concrete cracking where the porch used to lean

Fence posts weathered to a silvery sheen

Grandfather's shovel leaning on the wall

Same old hole still waiting, never falls

I was eight when my truck first broke down there

Tore up both tires and the skid plate bare

Momma hollered out from the kitchen window

Said don't you stop for anything till morning

So I coasted slow past that ditch line

Watching water rise like it's tracing mine

Pre-Chorus

Now I drive by and the hole still stares at me

Empty where the engine used to be

Something about the mud keeps pulling me back in

Like a river keeps trying to begin

Chorus

Rust & river mud, that's all that's left of you

Rust & river mud, but I won't forget you

Dust on my boots and the same old road we rode

Rust & river mud, but your ghost still glows

Verse

Flood came in spring so fast it tore the boards loose

Swamped up to the eaves before it even chose

I remember grabbing what I could throw in a truck bed

Water rising faster than my heart was fed

Found that shovel buried under three feet of current

Dug out a picture from beneath the cement surface

Your hand was still wrapped around the handle like a glove

Even drowned the sun never managed to love

Pre-Chorus

Now I drive by and the hole still stares at me

Empty where the engine used to be

Something about the mud keeps pulling me back in

Like a river keeps trying to begin

Chorus

Rust & river mud, that's all that's left of you

Rust & river mud, but I won't forget you

Dust on my boots and the same old road we rode

Rust & river mud, but your ghost still glows

Bridge

Maybe ghosts aren't something you lose

Maybe they're just a current running loose

Every time it floods this whole town over

I feel you digging right beside me again somehow

No more engines stalling on the bank tonight

Just water and gravel holding everything in its light

Outro

Rust & river mud, that's all that's left of you

Rust & river mud, but I won't forget you