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When the Well Runs Dry

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When The Well Runs Dry JByrd, Charles Humphrey III

It’s all lit up like Christmas. There’s a skyline of flame.
Metal halide lights up the prairie night all the way out to the Plains.
Out on the low horizon, the sunrise burns my eyes
shining off of the tankers and the flatbeds hauling pipe.

We all need the money, babe. I can’t lie.
Ain’t no need to wonder what’ll happen when the well runs dry.

This whole town’s made of trailers and the trains run two miles long.
Some guys phone their money home or they drink until it’s gone.
Ranch hands learn to roughneck. They’re all lined up to work.
There’s another boom and there ain’t no room so they sleep out in their trucks.

We all need the money, babe. I can’t lie.
Ain’t no need to wonder what’ll happen when the well runs dry.

Sometimes I feel I’m turning a wheel.

Dad took me down to an old ghost town when I was five years old,
where the miners bled with their dreams in their heads ’til the river ran out of gold.
I look over miles of burning rigs. God knows how much it’s worth.
Then the stars go black and the sun comes back and it’s time to go to work.

We all need the money, babe. I can’t lie.
Ain’t no need to wonder what’ll happen when the well runs dry.
Ain’t no need to wonder what’ll happen when the well runs dry.
Ain’t no need.

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from Jonathan Byrd & The Pickup Cowboys, released November 16, 2018

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Jonathan Byrd Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Preacher's kid, Gulf War veteran, award-winning songwriter, Youtuber, teacher, and creativity coach from North Carolina.

“One of the top 50 songwriters of the last 50 years. ” — Chicago Tribune

“...a folk singer with the heart of a rock 'n' roll band.” — K. Oliver, Free Times. ... more

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