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i guess the almanac was right as usual
another drought another fallow year
we’re losing more than insurance gonna cover
and down at the bakery people talking like fear

preacher says we gotta plow the fields and scatter
catholic father well he’s just saying just the same
but talk is cheap when you’re making steady wages
collection plates the only place they’ll ever make it rain

i can feel it coming like a summer temper (dust in the creases where i kiss you goodnight)
and all this talk and all this talk and all this talk about the weather (something’s gotta give but there’s no end in sight)
i don’t think i can stand another season
of you out on the rigs while the shingles let the cold in
and every night i'm robbed of one more reason to stay

but there’s a couple sections in the corner of the county
out past the coulee on the may city road
barley coming ninety bushels to the acre
malting grade and all of it already good as sold

and jonah thomas he ain’t been to church in ages
and up from the basement rising time and time again
angry talk about a deal with the devil
from under itchy fingernails and breath of idle men

i can hear them coming like a summer temper (26 of wiser's and can of kerosene)
and all this talk and all this talk and all this talk about the weather (enough to turn a man into something hard and mean)
til the scream of sirens splits the evening
out past the coulee where that crop’s already burning
and there's jonah kneeling, a box of matches in his hand

there’s some things the almanac will never tell you
there’s some things you just weren’t meant to understand
asked him why he did it and he said “i couldn’t take it
feeling like a pilgrim set adrift in god’s plan”

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from Who Knows How It Happens At All, released March 24, 2016

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