Lyrics
We laid on the bed-liner of an old Ford Ranger
The plastic still warm from the hundred-degree day
Passing a Big Red, two cousins and a stranger
Who'd crossed with my abuela, came to work for some pay
[Chorus]
We were kings of the August dust
For a moment, it was all of us
Tracing scars across the dark
Just a handful of sparks
[Verse 2]
The creosote smelled sharp after a flash of heat-rain
The scratch of the liner was rough on our backs
Abuela called from the screen door, "Diez minutos, ya!"
But a minute then was a seam in the shale, hiding cracks
[Chorus]
We were kings of the August dust
For a moment, it was all of us
Tracing scars across the dark
Just a handful of sparks
[Bridge]
Now one's chasing pipe down in the Permian basin
One's sending money from a kitchen in Des Moines
And some just got weathered down, without a grave to place them
Just a name whispered on a wind that joins
[Chorus]
We were kings of the August dust
Felt like forever, it was all of us
Tracing scars across the dark
Just a handful of sparks
[Outro]
A handful of sparks
Turnin' back to dark
About Townes Van Roy
Townes Van Roy was born between two worlds in Del Rio, Texas, to a Border Patrol agent father and a mother from Ciudad Acuña, Mexico. He learned to speak Spanish in his grandmother’s kitchen near a specific panadería on Calle Hidalgo and learned about heartbreak when the border separated his own family. After dropping out of high school, he picked up his father’s old Yamaha nylon-string and…
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