[Verse 1]

The wheat came up a sickly shade of brown

The youngest calf was born and never found

The river shrunk behind the old oak trees

My wife still folds the washing on the line

As ash falls softly from the yellow sky

[Pre-Chorus]

But I know

There’s no work left in these hands

Just heaps of dirt and unpaid plans

[Chorus]

So pour me liquor

Till the fields turn green

Till the house gets louder

Pour me liquor

Let the harvest rise

Let me see God reflected

In a bottle tonight

Tonight

[Verse 2]

Thе oldest boy won’t look me in the еye

He talks of cities with girls sat on his motorbike

I tell him dreams are for the overfed most

The government arrived in polished cars

They measured all our dead and poisoned yards

[Chorus]

So pour me liquor

Till the cows all sing

Till rain returns

Pour me liquor

Let the harvest rise

Let me see God reflected

In a bottle tonight

Tonight

[Bridge]

I remember summer in ‘98

When your mother danced outside the garden gate

The peaches grew so heavy branches bent

And every prayer we ever had was spent

Now the orchard’s black

The well runs dry

And crows avoid this soot fed sky

[Chorus]

Pour me liquor

Make the land forgive

Make me think my children

Still want this life to live

Pour me liquor

Till the morning comes

And I can face another day

Of loving what we’ve become