Legacy

[00:31.73] Broken hands and broken dirt
[00:34.17] Can't complain my bones hurt
[00:36.50] Land is broke and seed is sown
[00:38.68] Hardest work I've ever known
[00:40.44] Build this house, plant a tree
[00:42.56] This will be my legacy
[00:53.16] School was missed, time After time
[00:55.21] For chores and work, but I didn't mind
[00:57.89] Crops are in, and cows are fed
[00:59.94] It's late I'm beat, it's time for bed
[01:02.33] I dream of things that you can't see
[01:04.47] This will be my legacy
[01:14.62] I grew up quick and found a wife
[01:16.73] My blistered hands have built a life
[01:19.64] A cowboys life can be alone
[01:20.93] But she's the best I've ever known
[01:23.70] Barely holding on, but she's holding me
[01:25.80] We're gonna build - a legacy
[01:36.30] Two hands are better than one they say
[01:38.56] Kids are born, but we're going grey
[01:40.97] The ranch has grown, more cattle now
[01:43.03] Bills are paid with calf and cow
[01:44.94] I see the light, I'm feeling free
[01:47.75] This feels like a legacy
[01:57.72] Hop on horses - cut some trails
[02:00.17] They say Daddy tells the tallest tales
[02:01.99] Bout cowboy life and common sense
[02:04.20] Cut some logs then fix a fence
[02:06.45] I hold my kids on my knee
[02:08.41] Yeah this feels like a legacy
[02:19.28] They're all grownup now
[02:20.26] Weddings planned
[02:21.58] But a dark cloud grows upon the land
[02:23.47] No kindness shown, no kindness given
[02:25.53] There's no ideas and new opinions
[02:27.91] It's too far gone for a correction
[02:30.03] Things are trending in the wrong direction
[02:40.20] As time goes by now there's a need
[02:42.33] But it just hit a wall of greed
[02:44.93] All your work should be for me
[02:47.04] What about my sweat equi-ty?
[02:49.14] 100 years of blood and sweat
[02:51.01] Now filled with fear and past regret
[02:53.36] Hands are out to take a token
[02:55.59] Family's split, no words are spoken
[03:06.37] Once was my only obsession
[03:08.50] Has now been tied up in succession
[03:10.57] All my effort, years of toil
[03:12.65] Lawyers take my cash and soil
[03:14.58] For years it never felt like labor
[03:17.14] The ranch till now, was in gods favour
[03:19.22] To build this land for generations
[03:21.02] Now heartbreak plagues all my creation
[03:32.18] Tied up now with legal battles
[03:33.98] With who did what and worked the cattle
[03:36.35] The joy once felt in unity
[03:38.17] Has all been lost to lunacy
[03:40.36] How dare you claim this all is yours
[03:42.44] And start all of these crazy wars
[03:44.50] I'm getting old, I'll soon decease
[03:46.66] Now I just wish to die in peace
[03:57.41] I've given up, nothing matters
[03:59.57] Can't live through this family disaster
[04:01.93] I'm 83, my body's worn
[04:04.09] Sell it all, my heart is torn
[04:06.31] Make your millions, off my back
[04:08.44] I think I feel a heart attack
[04:10.63] Close my eyes, I'm finally free
[04:13.22] There goes my legacy
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