God's Country (feat. Wicca Phase Springs Eternal)

The road is longer than it is hard With no one to guide you And no one to hold No best foot forward to sway the odds Just a voice inside you And a stone to throw Could you be someone else If someone else is what I need But I shouldn't ask that of you When you are old you will understand But we are hurting now So what are we to do 'til then? Cradling pictures of you It was a highway to nowhere, and we rode it Cold car with no gas and we chose it Soft bodies playing in the street Our kids will grow up with half as much Trying to build something out of dust Finding out too late what they need You have tasted love and it tasted sweet You drank the blood and bit the meat You hold it, you hold it, you let it go You close your eyes and count to three You say the word and come to me And baby I know Drive the pathway through the pines And the moors of mystery Welcome conflict and let the crisis come And shake the ground beneath And the family secret hiding In the farmhouse down the street Rushes open door on your front porch and shadow me Taken and entirely, I embrace the bonny beast Over hills and highlands we rode hard, the passing peaks Danger liked the virgin wife, beside me she would sleep Cherry was her dad's truck that she crashed at seventeen I kneel before what temper broke the branches on the beach And those thrilling highs and southern nights are always out of reach I learned a lesson I need to pray and hard Final hours take care of me, God (take care of me God) You have tasted love and it tasted sweet You drank the blood and bit the meat You hold it, you hold it, you let it go You close your eyes and count to three You say the word and come to me And baby I know The road is longer than it is hard (love overwhelms me) With no one to guide you (it's all that I want, and it's all that we have) No best foot forward to sway the odds (but is it enough) Just a voice inside you (to make it worth it in the end) Don't sink in me with your dog teeth Don't sink in me with your dog teeth Don't sink in me with your dog teeth Don't sink in me Don't sink in me with your dog teeth You've tasted love and it tasted sweet You drank the blood and bit the meat You hold it, you hold it, but you'll never know You close your eyes and cry to me Don't sink in me with your dog teeth We're better off if you let go If it was harder then It will be better now For I am here and changed I couldn't tell you how There before the grace of God go I laughing to myself Forgetting what about