DROWNING FEARS

[Intro]
Woke up with a mission on my back.
By supper, it was somebody else's mission.
Nobody told the day.

[Verse 1]
Six in the mornin, list on the counter, plan in the pocket
Boots on the floor, keys in the door, coffee dry in the socket
Get to the field and the pto's off, cable's kinked at the socket
Snag on the line hit the mission clean, brother, one clean whack in the wallet
Sun move west, list move north, the pen and the day don't argue
Two more hours, three more hours, a fourth of a plan I still owe
Stress on the shoulders, stress on the collar
Grey in the mirror, grey in the hollow
Some hairs fall like leaves, I'm not the tree, I'm the follow

[Pre-Chorus]
And time ain't tailored for a farmer, no sir
Time is of the essence and the essence is water
You drown the fear or the fear drown you
That's the math, that's the day, that's the year, that's the crew

[Chorus]
Failure paper thin, success paper thin
Autumn come in soft and say brother, you win
Mouths fed, roof on, wire tight, coat warm
Paper thin between the harvest and the storm
Drowning fears, drowning fears
That's what persistence bought, a stack of successful years
Drowning fears

[Verse 2]
Snags on the line ain't a season, they a language
Every farmer readin the same book, different page
Plan wasn't wrong, the plan was a starting point
The mission got amended before I even filled the joint
End of the year, brother, sit down with the ledger
Half the wins in the column ain't the wins I remember
The wins remember me, that's the trick
You show up, you show up, you show up, get sick, show up, get better, show up

[Pre-Chorus]
And nobody clap for a farmer at the end of a season
The barn clap. The wife clap. The dog clap. And that's the reason.
Paper thin the margin, paper wide the pride
Every scab a season, every season a ride

[Chorus]
Failure paper thin, success paper thin
Autumn come in soft and say brother, you win
Mouths fed, roof on, wire tight, coat warm
Paper thin between the harvest and the storm
Drowning fears, drowning fears
That's what persistence bought, a stack of successful years
Drowning fears

[Bridge]
Grey hair ain't the receipt, brother, it's the price tag
The receipt is the ledger, the ledger is the flag
And the flag ain't for anybody but the wind and the field
And the wind and the field know exactly what the farmer built

[Final Chorus]
Failure paper thin, success paper thin
Wake up in October and the year is your kin
Mouths fed, roof on, wire tight, coat warm
Drowning fears is the harvest, that's the form
Drowning fears, drowning fears
Persistence just a fancy word for a stack of successful years
Drowning fears
Drowning fears