Stone and Salt

Boots in the gravel

Cold cuts the jaw

Smoke from the chimneys

Sky like a scar

Hands made of weather

Names carved in bark

Laughter like gravel

Love in the dark

We are stone and salt

Raised by the wind

By the winter’s assault

Sing it raw

Sing it rough

Sing it loud

We are stone and salt

Hearts like cliffs that refuse to fall

Stand your ground

Stand your ground (hey!)

Old tin of coffee

Boils on the fire

Stories of shipwrecks

Ropes

Rust

And wire

You trace the shoreline

On my lined-up palm

Storm in your breathing

Still in your calm

We are stone and salt

Raised by the wind

By the winter’s assault

Sing it raw

Sing it rough

Sing it loud

We are stone and salt

Hearts like cliffs that refuse to fall

Stand your ground

Stand your ground (hey!)

If the waves take all we’ve carried

If the roads turn back to mud

I will walk this frozen country

Barefoot

Bleeding

Through the flood (oh)

We are stone and salt

Raised by the wind

By the winter’s assault

Sing it raw

Sing it rough

Sing it loud

We are stone and salt

Hearts like cliffs that refuse to fall

Stand your ground

Stand your ground (hey!)

Stand your ground

Stand your ground