Dudley Saunders - Locust lyrics

she tells a list of daddy's family names like all the begats in the Bible and dark is singing in the car and daddy aims the car to eat the road so silent that you start to know your ma don't know who those names are cuz I am buried in the basement like the locusts who all sleep inside your yard and wake one day and try to tell you who they are and daddy starts to cry and no-one says a word because the locust that is buried in the dirt comes back in seven years to hurt lord I am one lord I am two lord I am three four lord I'm five hundred miles from that aching rocking car while locusts rise up from the ground I'm hanging upside down in a basement underneath some town yelling hard 'come daddy deeper come inside grease me up and spread me wide and when I spread my teeth to cry it'll move the earth with leather sinking deeper in I think I'll finally slip my skin just like this locust in the dirt come back this seventh year to hurt in my body made of all the missing years you can see the limbs of screaming children move like bones beneath my skin and the fingers of that other wife who'd finally gotten out of hand and he can't stand I heard him pray Jesus make my family new he buried me but then I grew a weed unwinding in his back a buzzing plaguing the skies to black yes I come back you say, I am a tumbleweed some decades down the line to an Arizona barkeep with a lean untroubled mind I'm rooted in the wind I'm grooved into the road and when I cry you know just why and there's nothing else to know' but nestled in the sandstorm's whine a language you can't read a song you cannot sing along an aching you don't need like conversations through a wall you listen hard but all that you can hear is mmmmmmmmmmmm