Diamondback Songtext / Lyric

Something broke through the brindled soil

Rattling the grass

Spittin' like coal

My spade came down across his spine

a terrible fear flew across his eyes

I said we both have lives that we are owed

You can own an acre, but not what it grows



I gave no heed when I got in,

Had bread and tea and then the beast got skinned






Diamond skin on a hickory post

Blowin' like a curse in the knee high rows

I never in my life had seen

the kind of rain we got that spring

A flood washed up every rainbow snake

And I was soon begging them to let me stay



They gave no heed when I got in,

they said You can hunt hares in our garden.

You can hunt hares in our garden.



Who will love a loveless thing

Betrayed by God, exiled by beast

I can hear you in the floorboards deep in the night

You could have freed me and redeemed your life