The Cedar and the Steel

[Intro]
[Verse]
Dust on my heavy boots
Sun sinking low and red
Shadows are taking roots
Just like my father said
[Verse]
The fence is turning gray
Holding the garden line
I find the place we lay
To carve that crooked sign
My thumb traces the wood
The 'J' is soft and deep
Beside his 'M' it stood
A secret that we keep
[Pre-Chorus]
The tractor’s in the shed
With stories left unsaid
The grease is on the floor
But we don’t work no more
[Chorus]
In the cedar and the steel
I find the way to feel
The ghost of a summer day
That never went away
With the peach pie on the plate
Leaning on the garden gate
Yeah, the golden hour light
Makes everything alright
[Post-Chorus]
It makes everything alright
In the middle of the night
[Verse]
I wore the desert tan
Across the ocean blue
My uniform is in the bag
I’m finally coming through
But the rhythm of the rain
On the corrugated tin
Takes away the heavy pain
And lets the boy back in
[Bridge]
Brushed snare on the beat
Like the wind through the wheat
Pedal steel starts to cry
Like a long-lost lullaby
I’m home for a little while
Walking every dusty mile
[Verse]
I smell the kitchen spice
Floating through the screen
I don't have to ask twice
To know just what it means
A slice of heaven’s crust
A cooling of the soul
Rising from the red dust
To make a broken man whole
[Chorus]
In the cedar and the steel
I find the way to feel
The ghost of a summer day
That never went away
With the peach pie on the plate
Leaning on the garden gate
Yeah, the golden hour light
Makes everything alright
[Outro]