[INTRO]
(Low drone, bent harmonica, rain on steel)
Gulf Coast Cowboy, if you know you know!
[CHORUS]
Deep South blood in a high latitude town
Gulf Coast soul, but the sun won’t stay around
Concrete walls try to close him in
But he walks through the rain and the city’s sin
Head down low, boots on ground
Darkest calm on this Puget ground
[VERSE 1]
Clock hits three, room still black
Coffee bitter, shirt still cracked
Fog at the door knows his name
Same hard work, different pain
Sleep don’t come when the world says rest
Only shows when the job’s been blessed
Time leans heavy, iron-gate slow
Every mile’s a debt he owes
[CHORUS]
Deep South blood in a high latitude town
Gulf Coast soul, but the sun won’t stay around
Concrete walls try to close him in
But he walks through the rain and the city’s sin
Head down low, boots on ground
Darkest calm on this Puget ground
[VERSE 2]
Asphalt slick with steel and fear
White lights flash, nobody sincere
Hands on wheels, eyes locked tight
Everybody rushing through the night
They tax his breath, they skim his days
Polish greed in a thousand ways
Still he guards what they can’t see
A quiet core, kept hard and clean
[CHORUS]
Deep South blood in a high latitude town
Gulf Coast soul, but the sun won’t stay around
Concrete walls try to close him in
But he walks through the rain and the city’s sin
Head down low, boots on ground
Darkest calm on this Puget ground
[BRIDGE]
Neon hums like a second rain
Every street’s got a borrowed name
Promises crack in sodium light
Everybody owes something tonight
He don’t pray loud, don’t beg or bend
Just keeps moving till the pressure ends
[VERSE 3]
Paychecks thin but the spine stays straight
He measures life by the weight he takes
No medals hung, no names in stone
Just keeps the line from breaking bone
Every mile carved into his jaw
Every silence something he saw
[FINAL CHORUS]
Deep South blood in a high latitude town
Gulf Coast soul, but the sun won’t stay around
Concrete walls try to close him in
But he walks through the rain and the city’s sin
Head down low, boots on ground
Darkest calm on this Puget ground
[OUTRO]
Rain don’t ask, it just comes down
So does he—on Puget ground
GulfCoastCowboy
