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[Intro] [Verse] Red clay stains on the denim fabric Ghosts in the attic of a cabin cinematic Sharecropper’s debt in the breath of the breeze History hidden in the canopy of trees They paved over the okra and the yams Now we’re trapped inside the digital jams But the soil still hums a spiritual tune Under the light of a Piedmont moon [Chorus] They erased the name from the deed But the soil remembers the seed Blood on the plow, sweat on the brow We reclaim the then in the now Yeah, the land never lies Under these Southern skies [Post-Chorus] Keep the roots deep While the city folks sleep Keep the roots deep [Verse] Grandpa’s palms like a topographical map Tracing the lines of the cultural trap He knew the rotation of the soy and the corn Long before the new subdivisions were born Calloused fingers counting out the rows That’s where the unspoken legacy grows Now it’s all concrete and eminent domain Washing the heritage down in the rain [Chorus] They erased the name from the deed But the soil remembers the seed Blood on the plow, sweat on the brow We reclaim the then in the now Yeah, the land never lies Under these Southern skies [Bridge] Property lines drawn in invisible ink Bringing the culture right to the brink From the porch to the court house floor They don't want us owning no more But the silt and the salt remain Flowing through every black vein [Verse] Cultural amnesia is a heavy price Trading the garden for a bag of white rice We used to be the stewards of the pine Marking the border and the property line Now the kudzu swallows up the porch While we’re still carrying the ancestral torch Link the dispossession to the modern stress Redistribution is the only way to progress [Chorus] They erased the name from the deed But the soil remembers the seed Blood on the plow, sweat on the brow We reclaim the then in the now Yeah, the land never lies Under these Southern skies [Post-Chorus] Keep the roots deep While the city folks sleep Keep the roots deep [Breakdown] Dusty grooves on the vinyl spin Where do the stories begin? In the dirt, in the mud In the spirit, in the blood [Outro]
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