Fred Eaglesmith - Sunflowers lyrics

Well there's cars in the driveway as you turn into the yard The casket's in the living room You look away and swallow hard Someone hands you a bottle And you don't know who they are Funny, how you used to know everybody in these parts And you hardly knew the dead man Though you spoke a time or to And he had a wife and two small children And he lived just like you do And he died on his tractor Holding his end down Forty acres left to plant And forty in the ground But he never had a chance It's what they're saying now The bank was going to walk in any day, anyhow And it makes you kind of wonder As you watch the daylight burn Wonder if he knew it Wonder if he'd heard She's got a crooked smile And there's dark around her eyes She says she knows she's got to get on with her life And you stand off alone And look to where the sun sets Someone says we ain't seen the last of it yet And he died on his tractor Holding his end down Forty acres left to plant And forty in the ground And he never had a chance That's what they're saying now The bank was going to walk in any day, anyhow And it makes you kind of wonder As you watch the daylight burn Wonder if he knew it Wonder if he'd heard There's a crop of yellow sunflowers In the field across the way Makes you sorta grin As you're coming down the lane Three hundred bucks a ton It's what they said at plantin' time But when it comes to harvest It wasn't worth a dime