Sunlight cuts through the rusted screen Dust motes dancing in the morning sheen Coffee’s cold and the tractor’s dead again But you’re humming low, ignoring the wind The fields are thirsty under a hollow sky We’re counting copper coins while the days crawl by The fence is leaning like it’s lost its pride But I’ve got nowhere else I want to hide And we’re sowing seeds in the cracked, hard ground Building a castle when the walls fall down It ain’t easy, baby, but it’s ours to keep A promise made when the world’s asleep Yeah, life drags its heels but we hold the line Trading our sweat for a simple sign of love Dinner’s simple, just bread and grain Listening to the rhythm of the coming rain Your hands are calloused, mine are worn But we’re still here, since the day we were born into this Let the mortgage mount, let the harvest fail None of that matters, it’s all just stale Because I see the future in your tired eyes Beyond the fences and the graying skies And we’re sowing seeds in the cracked, hard ground Building a castle when the walls fall down It ain’t easy, baby, but it’s ours to keep A promise made when the world’s asleep Yeah, life drags its heels but we hold the line Trading our sweat for a simple sign of love Just you and me on this patch of earth Finding the gold for what it’s worth Still here Still yours Still light