Lyrics
The Kansas City Southern rail bridge still smells of creosote.
August '05, I made my opening move and I wrote
Your name in the red clay down by the water's edge.
Figured I was playin' two steps ahead.
Felt the quiet click of a pawn off the board,
a kind of win my blood could just afford.
[Chorus]
It was a simple trade, a bishop for some time,
But I never understood this game of mine.
I can't see the board since my queen was gone,
can't remember where I put my only queen on.
[Verse 2]
The river water felt like a shock, cold on my teeth.
"'Just jump,' you said, 'the water ain't that mean.'"
And I went under thinkin' it was some kinda truth,
Spent the best part of my damned-up youth
defendin' a paper queen with a castle made of one big lie.
Didn't see you movin' out the corner of my eye.
[Chorus]
It was a simple trade, a bishop for some time,
But I never understood this game of mine.
I can't see the board since my queen was gone,
can't remember where I put my only queen on.
[Bridge]
Some sacrifices aren't a strategy, just a hole.
I thought you were my queen, a story to be told.
It was just a quiet check you never even saw me make.
A rookie's final, unforgivable mistake.
[Outro]
Stuck in the endgame now.
Don't know what you do without a queen, anyhow.
About George Jonas
George Jonas was born in Sonora, Mexico and raised in the rose fields of East Texas, where he learned to sing honky-tonk from a transistor radio and play guitar from an old farmhand. For years, he lived with the quiet fear of being an undocumented worker in the only home he'd ever known. Now, his weathered tenor and an inherited 1968 Gibson tell the stories that grew in that silence—tales of…
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