Dust & Diesel

Verse 1

Alarm clock ringing at a quarter to five

Another hard morning just to keep things alive

Coffee black in a cracked-up cup

Steel toes waiting by the pickup

Hands got cuts that the day shift gave

Back got a bend that the years all made

But I ain’t ashamed of the dirt on my shirt

A working man’s pride still smells like earth

Verse 2

Boss man hollers, weld sparks fly

Summer heat hangs in a southern sky

Same packed lunch in a paper sack

Same old prayer just to make it back

Got a half-ton truck and a full-tank dream

And a radio loud with a rebel streak

Life ain’t fair, but fair ain’t king

You do what you must for your own last name

Pre-Chorus

We ain’t built for easy, we’re built to grind

Forged in the fire and the overtime

Chorus

We’re dust and diesel

Grease and grit

Ain’t much pretty, but we’re proud of it

Built on long days, calloused hands

Blue-collar hearts in a hard-work land

Yeah, the whole world runs on what we’re giving

Blood, sweat, rust, and living

We’re dust and diesel