mistersatan

okay... don't have much to say today- it's morning, it's early, and I need breakfast and clean laundry... so, I thought I'd give you guys something to read. It's a song I wrote a few years back- let me know what you think.


A Handful of Dust

I look in the rearview mirror
I see the road stretch out before me
As the night turns into day
I wonder what today will bring
If I can clean out all the dust
In the lines drawn in my face

A stranger's face stares back at me
I'm becoming a different person
Unrecognizable to myself
Right now is always on my mind
I ain't had time to notice
I'm turning into someone else

Just lookin' for a place by the side of the road
To spend the night
If we can find some water and shade
We should be all right

It don't seem like things are makin' sense
It only seems like yesterday
The bank came and pushed us off the land
Now I gotta steal to feed my kids
And I know that it ain't right
But I gotta do what I can

Sometimes it makes a man so angry
Like he's fit to bust
Just like someone said,
"I'll show you fear in a handful of dust"

Well, I'm tired of their dirty looks
From people wishin' we would go back home
It's enough to make a man lose his mind
I even see 'em in my sleep
I feel their eyes right on my back
Feeling gets stronger all the time

Don't feel like a man at all no more
Just a hollowed out empty shell
Pickin' up and movin' down the road
Now I'm hungry all the time
Sell my soul for a decent meal
Or just to get rid of this heavy load

Sometimes it makes a man so angry
Like he's fit to bust
Just like someone said,
"I'll show you fear in a handful of dust"


-randall