Terry Lee Hale - Long Draw Lyrics

Long Draw

People don't know nothing anymore
Can't get it figured out
Folks just wandering around
Justify doing without
Fighting over water
A cool, clear, clean glass of water

Mother Natures calling, calling
Sending along her forget-me-nots
With it comes a warning, warning
But when have warnings ever been enough
You cannot make a law
And you can never make a law
Long enough

Now spring has moved to summer
Summer is into fall
Way too much rain now
Or not near enough at all
We're a long way from mercy
And it's a long damn way to fall

Chorus:
But if there's hope in this house
I'm going to find it
If there's hope in this house
I'm going to rope I'm going to bind it
If there's hope in this house
I want to get up inside it
I want to magnify it
I want to take a long draw

We pruned ourselves trying to get even
Playing chicken with the truth
No matter what you're hiding, holding
Folks acting like they don't know the right thing to do
I've never seen nothing like it
Militant ignorance and proud of it too

Here-to-fore it's been kettle scrape
Run by mullahs, rabbis, preachers and priests
They will fill you full of lead saying it and praying
For the wrong kind of peace
Danger, danger

Chorus:
If there's hope in the house
I'm going to find it
If there's hope in house
I'm going to rope I want to ride it
If there's hope in this house
I want to lie beside it
I want to magnify it
I want to take a long draw

We still have got to earn our future
We can't be just treading time
This is not just a backwater
Where we can mosey easy going down the line
And no matter how you call it
These are strange days
Surely they are counting times

Chorus:
But if there's hope in the house
I'm going to find it
If there's hope in the house
I want to rope, I'm going to ride it
If there's hope in this house
I want to lie beside it
If there's hope in the house
I want to magnify it
I want to occupy it
I want to take a long draw

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