Owen Stroud

I’ve given up taking pictures while driving
and struggling to stay in the lanes
’cause I’d rather be lost in the beauty of frost
than try to preserve it with a few blurry frames

cornbread and coffee
peace in the valley
Ohio howdy
goodbye Kentucky
I’ll be sleeping well
in the Rust Belt tonight

miles by the thousands
have slipped by my side
every year it has its own face
and I think of you loving me
when my heart was ugly
and never quite knew
just which dream to chase

cornbread and coffee
peace in the valley
Ohio howdy
goodbye Kentucky
I’ll be sleeping well
in the Rust Belt tonight

and don’t the wind cut through
the thickest of coats
and lash those knuckles to shreds
oh I’d stay in the car
but that won’t get me far
when the tank ain’t got nothing left

cornbread and coffee
peace in the valley
Ohio howdy
goodbye Kentucky
I’ll be sleeping well
in the Rust Belt tonight