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The Soil Remembers (A Farmer's Cry)

V7.5
Gary Robinson
03:53
2025-11-18
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this is a country ballad for keith Urban or Chris Stapleton
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[Intro]
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Verse 1
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I was raised on land my father swore
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would always take care of its own,
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but now this field is coughing dust
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where living soil once had grown.
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I breathe the poison when I spray,
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try not to choke when the wind shifts near—
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my kids play in a yard of chemicals,
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and I pretend I’ve got no fear.
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Pre-Chorus
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They say these seeds will save us,
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but the contracts tell the truth—
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we’re renting life from corporations
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who stole the future from our youth.
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Chorus
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And the soil remembers
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every boot print, every tear.
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It remembers all the promises
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that blew away like harvest years.
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This land is breaking under us,
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but we still kneel and pray—
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’cause the soil remembers who we were
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before the world took it away.
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Verse 2
1:11
I buy my seeds like borrowed dreams,
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can’t save a single one for spring.
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They sue you if their pollen drifts—
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that’s the kind of power money brings.
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The bank man shuffles papers
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while my crops drown in a flood,
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he doesn’t taste the bitter truth:
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my payments paid in sweat and blood.
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Pre-Chorus
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They claim that chemicals feed the world,
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but they’re stealing our own breath,
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and the cost of trying to stay alive
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keeps farming families in debt.
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Chorus
1:49
And the soil remembers
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every storm that we survived,
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every child who ran these fields
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still carrying toxins in their lives.
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The dreams get thinner every year,
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the hope gets hauled away—
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but the soil remembers who we were
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before the sickness and decay.
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Bridge
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Where are the bees that kissed our corn?
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Where are the birds that sang at dawn?
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Where is the creek that ran so clear
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before the chemicals dragged it on?
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Where are the hands that used to heal,
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not sign their freedom over twice?
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This land is crying out for justice,
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but the world won’t pay the price.
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Breakdown (Spoken / Half-Sung)
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You can’t breathe a contract.
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You can’t drink a promise.
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You can’t raise a family
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on debt and poisoned harvests.
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We are farmers—
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not prisoners of your profit.
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We’re dying out here…
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and you call it progress.
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Final Chorus
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And the soil remembers
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every name carved in the dust,
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every mother who buried hope
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when the banks betrayed her trust.
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We’ve given all we had to give,
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but we still rise each day—
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’cause the soil remembers who we are
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and it won’t forget our way.I press my hand into the ground
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and whisper to the fading earth:
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We were stewards… not your victims—
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and one day, you’ll know our wort
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