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Our Shovels Sing

from Land War in Asia by Mead Lake's Most Wanted

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lyrics

Fallow is the field
that hopes for grain
And thirsty are the roots
that pray for rain
No wonder we wandered so long in the wilderness
No wonder we wanted so patiently on the joy of our first kiss

And our shovels sing
in our blistered hands
in the work that we do
in the dreams that we dream
as we keep the land
from the shoulders we swing
from the heart we will plant
and when the blades go dull
we will sharpen them again

Humble is the heart
that has been broke [i know it should be broken, but that doesn’t fit with the song]
and beaten are the swords
into instruments of hope
though sometimes the sickness strengthens its hold on me
wasn’t it written that emptiness will be swallowed in victory?

I was watching the weeds on the roadside
grow into flowering fields
turning the world more beautiful
than anything that we know
from the seeds that we had sown

Cause our shovels sing
in our blistered hands
in the work that we do
in the dreams that we dream
as we keep the land
from the shoulders we swing
from the heart we will plant
and when the blades go dull
we will sharpen them...
when the blades go dull
we will sharpen them…
when the blades go dull
we will sharpen them again.

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from Land War in Asia, released June 12, 2013
Baker: Vox, acoustic. Beam: Electric. Best: Banjo. Christian: Moral support, excised lap steel. Eckert: Bass. Freund: Drums. Nevsimal: Vox.

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