[Verse 1] Land of dust and broken dreams
Voices long gone but still they scream
Highways stretching into night
Sins and silence in the twilight
[Verse 2] Rusty bars and empty fields
Southern promises unfulfilled
Shadows stretching far and wide
Lost souls with no place to hide
[Chorus] Oh the chains of the south
Broken words from broken mouths
We keep rollin' through the dirt
Livin' lives in old t-shirts
[Bridge] Gotta break free from this land
Past's like iron in the sand
Songs of freedom in the breeze
Chains of the south won't let me be
[Verse 3] Trucks with lost names on the door
Whiskey bottles on the floor
Dreams we chase and never find
Blues and sorrow we rewind
[Verse 4] Moonlight hitting cracked pavement
Stories told in old basement
Life's a road worn and frayed
In southern night we find our way