Bryce Jardine

Lyrics

Bloody Harlan

We had honest roads waiting for us then
I was about your age now
Houses on the rise, a theatre lit the strip
With traffic on the streets in town

I heard a rumble 'round that time through the halls of junior high
Year's end I was flunking out
They blew the hills to the sky while the world passed us by
And the ghosts of bloody Harlan hung around

Nothing coming for miles and miles
Nothing but trouble to get up to at night
We'd go down to the water with the sins of our fathers
Where the ghosts of bloody Harlan howl
The ghosts of bloody Harlan howl

The deprivation of decline bore a hollow of his eyes
Whisky to wash it all out
And though he's long gone when the river's calm I can
See him looking back at me anyhow

And of all those boys I'm near the last of us left
Neither elsewhere nor six feet south
I settle 'neath the weather of an easy fix
Where the ghosts of bloody Harlan howl
The ghosts of bloody Harlan howl

Now when the wind whistles over the hills through the broken
Windows of that old house
It chills to the bone given nowhere to go
And it kills just to live it down

You oughta never look back with the dreams that you have
The plans your always talking about
There just no good to come of a highway song
Drowning in Harlan howl

Nothing coming for miles and miles
Nothing but trouble to get up to at night
And you'll muddy up the water just like your father
Where the ghost of bloody Harlan howl
The ghost of bloody Harlan howl
Drowning in a Harlan howl