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See Arkansaw (June 18, 2024)
Jesse Welles
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I asked a man when Texas ended
He said, "If you're lucky, it won't"
I said, "I got a gift, I got to get to Fort Smith"
I was starting to lose all hope
The night was young, then he pulled out a gun
And the bullet just missed my nose
I thought I was delivered when I crossed the big river
Thought I knew but I just didn't know
I passed over the Ozarks and under the Wichitas
I skipped from poverty to poverty
Fenced in in Arkansas, Arkansas
I saw the soybean fields and the flatbed trucks
And I watched the concrete creep
Subdivided, shouting on a black rock mountain
Saying, "This is how it feels to be free"
I read the scripture on the billboard
Prophesying my damnation
Reaching for his life, preacher's on his third wife
Out in Branson on a big vacation
I passed over the Ozarks and under the Wichitas
I skipped from poverty to poverty
Fenced in in Arkansas, Arkansas
I saw a nuclear plant, homegrown
And I know it ain't fake 'cause they grew it in a lake
That they built just to cool its bones
And they handed out a lot of badges
And made a lot of energy
That they fired in a wire across state lines
While the state slurped up the fee
And there's hardly a place that meth ain't planted a dead white kiss
You can smell it in the air, you can see it in the chair
It's pretty damn hard to miss
I saw a law officer shrug his whole body
Resigned to an American god
Say, "If they wanted to, they'd help themselves"
And he put away his bible and he got out a gun
I passed over the Ozarks and under the Wichitas
I skipped from poverty to poverty
Fenced in in Arkansas, Arkansas
If God lives up in the Rockies
If that's where the big man meddles
Then a lesser being of a lower degree
Must have come down here and settled
I met revelators, archimandrites
The big and the belittled
I reckon all in time, deep in my mind
We're gonna meet somewhere in the middle
I passed over the Ozarks and under the Wichitas
I skipped from poverty to poverty
Fenced in in Arkansas, Arkansas
I can't tell you where one thing ended
And another did occur
It was new and it was old to me
It was more than I could observe
If what I've seen's for the taking
And the taking can be seen
I'm gonna need your help with the calculations
I can't tell you what it all means
I passed over the Ozarks and under the Wichitas
I skipped from poverty to poverty
Fenced in in Arkansas, Arkansas