VERSE 1
There’s a kid passed out by the liquor store
Same old coat that he wore before
Hands blue cold in the midnight glow
Nobody asks, nobody knows
Mama cries through the kitchen screen
Daddy says it’s the “American dream”
But the factories died and the pills moved in
Now the whole town’s rust beneath the skin
PRE-CHORUS
And the preacher keeps sayin’
“Faith will pull you through…”
But faith gets thin
When the graveyards bloom
CHORUS
Apache ghost underneath my tongue
Stealin’ breath from the broken young
Cheap high, slow death
Wrapped up in a dollar bill
Everybody lookin’ for somethin’ to kill the pain
While the whole world burns in the china rain
VERSE 2
Backseat hearts and convenience store lights
Another ambulance cuts the night
Girl downtown with the haunted stare
Says she don’t even feel she’s there
Old friends carved into marble stone
Too many names I have known
And every cross by the roadside sings
About shattered lives and broken wings
PRE-CHORUS
And the TV keeps shoutin’ blame
While mothers bury sons the same
No savior coming down these tracks
For the souls we ain’t gettin’ back
CHORUS
Apache ghost underneath my tongue
Stealin’ breath from the broken young
Cheap high, slow death
Wrapped up in a dollar bill
Everybody lookin’ for somethin’ to kill the pain
While the whole world burns in the china rain
BRIDGE
I can hear the highway moan
Like a dog left out alone
Every siren cuts right through
Like a nail driven into you
And the mirror shows a stranger’s face
A tired man losin’ grace
Tryna crawl out from beneath
All the poison in his teeth
FINAL CHORUS
Apache ghost won’t let me go
Drags me down where the dead men go
One more spark fades into black
One more soul ain’t comin’ back
Ohhh… we were believers once
Now we just survive
In the china rain
OUTRO
Streetlamp hum and a hospital hall
Another mother against the wall
Morning comes but it brings no light
Just another name lost tonight…
