Name: Cattle Yard - Single
Duration: P00H05M15S
Description: Written with dust and little light; Cattle Yard is a song about the looseness in our own condolences. A familiarity that stings from the first word to the last.

Cattle Yard - Single

by on the rye

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Written with dust and little light; Cattle Yard is a song about the looseness in our own condolences. A familiarity that stings from the first word to the last.

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I heard your name out by the cattle yard
I never knew I had to go this far
but now that dying seems to be for me
You watched the color in the middle son
You wanted more but they didn’t sing your song
just take it easy for a trip that’s close to you
and now it’s easy like a game we knew
and all the times I had to follow through
you kept hiding for days out miles away
I wrote your name across my cattle yard
I never knew I couldn’t grow this far
and now that sounds so easy for me to say
I’m kind of hurt now that you never care
Just like we said we wouldn’t ever dare
that wasn’t much of a chance nor more to come
I kind of worry now but in syllables
I walk in parks now where there’s stepping stones
Maybe I can hear that sweet call from you
But it’s only easy like a game we knew
remember all the times I had to follow through
that was when you kept hiding out miles away
We’re a little loose out in the cattle yard
but babe I got you so you’ll never fall
and now that you know that we can’t fall away
and now that you know that...
I’m here to stay

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released April 20, 2017

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on the rye Houston, Texas

'on the rye' is a singer-songwriter born from the pines of North Carolina and raised elsewhere.

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