Barbed Wire Boys-Claire Lynch

[ti:Barbed Wire Boys] [ar:Claire Lynch] [al:Whatcha Gonna Do] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Barbed Wire Boys - Claire Lynch [00:04.66]Well I come from the rural midwest [00:08.69] [00:09.58]It's the land I love more than all the rest [00:13.52] [00:14.30]It's the place I know and understand [00:18.62] [00:19.20]Like a false front building [00:20.91] [00:21.48]Like the back of my hand [00:23.35] [00:23.89]And the men I knew when I was coming up [00:28.27] [00:28.79]Were sober as coffee in a styrofoam cup [00:33.46]There were Earls and Rays Harlans and Roys [00:38.40]They were full-grown men [00:40.07]They were barbed wire boys [00:43.37] [00:45.80]They raised grain and cattle [00:47.89]On the treeless fields [00:49.61] [00:50.21]Sat at the head of the table [00:52.74]And prayed before meals [00:54.87] [00:55.44]Prayed an our father and that was enough [00:59.56] [01:00.17]Pray more than that and you couldn't stay tough [01:04.81]Tough as the busted thumbnails [01:07.51]On the weathered hands [01:08.97] [01:09.75]They worked the gold plate off their wedding bands [01:13.95] [01:14.63]And they never complained [01:16.84]No they never made noise [01:19.51]And they never left home [01:21.28]These barbed wire boys [01:24.29]Cause their wildest dreams were all fenced in [01:28.21] [01:29.15]By the weight of family [01:31.66]By the feeling of sin [01:33.46] [01:34.09]That'll prick your skin at the slightest touch [01:38.05] [01:38.74]If you reach too far if you feel too much [01:43.78]So their deepest hopes will never were expressed [01:47.87] [01:48.51]And just beat like bird's wings [01:50.88]In the cage of their chest [01:53.14]All the restless longings all the secret joys [01:57.41] [01:57.94]That never were set free [01:59.83]In the barbed wire boys [02:03.77] [02:43.57]And now one by one they're departing this earth [02:47.75] [02:48.44]And it's clear to me now exactly what they're worth [02:52.42] [02:53.10]Oh they were just like atlas holding up the sky [02:57.11] [02:57.96]You never heard him speak [02:59.77] [03:00.35]You never saw him cry [03:02.12] [03:02.82]But where do the tears go [03:05.34]That you never shed [03:07.07] [03:07.64]Where do the words go [03:10.03]That you never said [03:12.50]Well there's a blink of the eye [03:14.94]There's a catch in the voice [03:17.28]That is the unsung song [03:20.04] [03:21.32]Of the barbed wire boys