Friant-Kern Morning

[Verse 1]
The water in the Friant-Kern is brown and movin' slow.
Got your text an hour back from outside Coalinga, though.
It's August, and the air's so thick you taste the diesel burn.
Waited half a year for you to make this final turn.

[Chorus]
'Cause this water we skipped stones on ain't never been that deep.
And some promises the thirsty ground just can't afford to keep.

[Verse 2]
I see you with some kitchen string and bacon, seventeen and tan.
Yellin' "Chết tiệt!" when a big one nearly got your hand.
You said, "Don't you get famous, Hùng, before I make it home."
And left a pack of Camels on the concrete overflow.

[Bridge]
That was before the letters came that smelled of foreign dust.
Before the boy I used to know got buried under rust.

[Chorus]
And this water we skipped stones on ain't never been that deep.
Some promises the thirsty ground just can't afford to keep.

[Outro]
Two headlights bloom... the gravel starts to creep.
This water we skipped stones on ain't never been that deep.