[Intro]
Dust on my nose
Sun in my eyes
Whole lotta sky
For a body this size
[Verse 1]
Wake up to the hawk cry
Heart thump like a war drum
Little king of a dirt town
Teeth sharp, nerves numb
Tunnel vision, yeah literally
Whole world in a hallway
Every step on the surface
Could be my last day
Cousins posted like lookouts
Whistle code on the hill
When that shadow comes crawling
We freeze, then we spill
[Chorus]
This is that prairie dog anthem
Tiny heart, big wide canyon
From the burrow to the badlands, stand up
I was born in the bite of the wind
Claws in the clay, I dig in
Small body with a hard rock chin
Prairie dog
Prairie dog
Prairie dog anthem
[Verse 2]
You see brown fur, I see battle scars
You see flat land, I see shooting stars
When the night drops, owls start circling
I can feel fear in the ground start trembling
Whole squad popping up, then duck low
Living on the edge of the teeth of a coyote’s shadow
But I still crack jokes on the mound like, “Pull up”
Tail flick, dirt kick, never back up
From the tractor roar to the thunder roll
Every rumble writes a warning in my bones
[Chorus]
[Bridge]
[low vocal register]
You got nine-to-five
I got dawn-to-dusk
You clock in, clock out
I trust claws and dust
[double-time flow]
If the storm comes fast I adapt and I vanish
In the maze that I made out of grit and damage
Started with a scrape and a bite and a scratch
Now the underground town got a whole new patch
[screamed vocals]
Can’t cage this plain
Can’t cage this pain
Can’t cage this chain
We chew right through that thing
[Chorus]