Out Here

Verse 1

In Roanoke, the dusk runs red

Through hollers deep where old ghosts tread

Mama hums low with a Mason jar grace

And the hound keeps watch like time lost its place

Bristol’s humming with a fiddle cry

And screen doors sing when the moon walks by

We passed that flask and let sorrow burn

In the ember glow where the heartstrings turn

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Chorus

Out here in Virginia, the sky bleeds gold

From the Blue Ridge peaks to the ocean cold

Where love cuts deep and we love out loud

And grief rolls slow like a mountain cloud

Out here in Virginia, we plant and grieve

With calloused hands and hearts on our sleeve

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Verse 2

Lynchburg prayers in a pew-worn row

Storms came through but we never let go

Route 29 like a lifeline thread

Through silent nights and the words we never said

Richmond’s hymns in a tobacco drawl

Rivers preach truths through the Capitol’s sprawl

The past runs thick in that southern clay

But we waltz through the weight like we ain’t afraid

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Bridge

I still see you near Chesapeake Bay

Salt in your hair like the ghost of May

You said, “This land don’t forget its kin”

So I drive ‘til the waves wash where we’ve been

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Final Chorus

Out here in Virginia, the sky bleeds gold

From the Blue Ridge peaks to the ocean cold

Where love cuts deep and we love out loud

And grief rolls slow like a mountain cloud

Out here in Virginia, we plant and grieve

With calloused hands and hearts on our sleeve

Yeah, out here in Virginia… we still believe