Two Flags Over the Dust

Intro

Soft guitar, low wind (oh-oh)

(mmm)

Verse

Dust on the ledger, names in the sand

They drew their lines with trembling hands

Cattle and corn, a promise and a claim

Two languages calling the very same name

San Antonio sunrise, smoke on the rise

Children learning flags they didn't recognize

Old men at the crossroads, teacups grow cold

Stories traded like bullets — hard and told

Pre-chorus

We swore on the skyline, we swore on the bone

Letters folded tight, sent back home (home)

The bells kept on ringing, the horses kept on runnin'

Feet on the earth, and the morning kept on comin' (comin')

Chorus

Two flags over the dust, two flags over the plain (over the plain)

Two songs in the night, two names in the rain (two names in the rain)

Who will carry the children, who will count the cost?

Who will remember the lines that we crossed?

Two flags over the dust, two flags over the plain (yeah, yeah)

Verse

Smoke and a courthouse, a prayer by the gate

Men traded a lifetime for minutes of fate

The Alamo heartbeat, the cannon's last cry

Letters burned slowly while mothers ask why

Ranches and rivers, they mark where we stood

A fence or a promise, a wrong or some good

Maps with red ink and gardens with weeds

Lessons that sell for the price of our needs

Bridge

Oh—listen— (listen)

There's a child on the porch with a stone in his hand

He doesn't know borders, just the shape of the land

Oh—listen— (listen)

The old talk in taverns, the young sleep with dreams

No treaty can teach what a living thing means

Chorus

Two flags over the dust, two flags over the plain (over the plain)

Two songs in the night, two names in the rain (two names in the rain)

Who will carry the children, who will count the cost?

Who will remember the lines that we crossed?

Two flags over the dust, two flags over the plain (oh-oh)

Two flags over the dust, two flags over the plain (alright, alright)

Outro

Guitar fading, wind with a name (with a name)

Footsteps going home, some the same, some not the same (mmm)

Two flags in the sun—two stories remain (yeah)

Two flags over the dust.