One Voice

And I, I was married in the town where I was born

And the rain, it pooled in the fields around the farm

And her, the dust in her hair and my kid in her arms

I bent early, one night in the winds of a silent storm

My skin in her mother's hands

Dishsoap and a wedding band

One voice, it only speaks so loud here

And Bobby, under the awning to shake the sun

He says listen, on the hottest day when it's dead and calm

And the sound is like a freight train rolling through

And the rain, when it stops you'll know what's coming through

Don't fill his head with that

The boy's only two and a half

One voice, it only speaks

To call your name

And to take you out

Past the dirt gray fields and miles of telephone lines

And three, it was three long years ago

And five, five years comes sometime after four

And I, I dunked my head in the stream and prayed

And the water, it listened but it don't carry away