Girlyman - Break Me Slow lyrics

Build me a home on the Gulf Coast Where lightning lights up all the life boats And beds float away just like freed ghosts When the hurricanes come to call I've got bricks still to lay of my own fate Like cards that you weigh under tables I never could have my hand both ways So the winner takes it all Lay my body low Save me once then let me go I'll pay every cent that I owe Just break me slow Give me a farm on the west coast Where blackberries climb over fence posts And barefoot and breezy on back roads And water turns to wine Well over and out, I've got to forge Can't sing one more note of this ragged score I've run out of scraps for the very poor Scratching at my mind Lay my sins down low Burn me once, now let me go I'll reap every trouble I sow Just break me, break me slow So find me a field on the flood plain Where storm chasers drive into dark rain And lay me down flat in the cornrows As a sound like a freight train grows Lay this burden low You told me once, now I should know I'll shoulder each debt that I owe Just break me, break me slow