[Verse 1]
Red sand on my boots
Still in my lungs
Clocked off the shaft
Crawled into the hum
Steel door sticks
Then it swings too wide
Same cracked stools
Same dead-eyed sky
[Pre-Chorus]
Helmets on the counter
Pay left at the gate
We trade in old stories
For something that burns slow
Late
[Chorus]
Welcome to the Red Dust Bar
Where the ceiling leaks and the jukebox scars
We drink to forget which rock we're on
Till the last blue memory is gone
Welcome to the Red Dust Bar
Where we laugh like the world’s not far
Just a room on the edge of a dying star
Red Dust Bar
[Verse 2]
Cards bent
Edges black
Dealer’s got a tremor in his hand
Photo of a coastline
Pinned behind the fan
Foreman in the corner
Nursing one all night
Says he’ll quit this job
Right after “one more” light
[Pre-Chorus]
Glass rings on the metal
Marking every year
We count down on napkins
But the shuttle never nears
[Chorus]
[Bridge]
[low vocal register]
You ever dream in colors
That don’t exist out here?
Hear rain on old tin roofs
Like it’s right beside your ear?
[whispered vocals]
Then the bassline hits
And it all turns red again
Just us and our ghosts
And the short shift of our veins
[Chorus]