Two Different Trees

[Verse 1]
The screen door slams on your daddy’s old Dodge,
a sound I ain’t heard since September of ‘09.
You sent me a picture, a house on a hill,
Said, "Thought you should see what we planted grew, still."

[Chorus]
We used to measure our days by the sun,
Now your shadow falls where my work ain't yet done.
Same red-dirt roots, two different trees,
One of us got out, one of us never leaves.

[Verse 2]
Remember that summer, the air thick as tar?
We shared a warm Lone Star behind your first car.
Swore we'd own the whole county, or die on the try,
Now you just 'like' my posts when the harvest runs dry.

[Chorus]
We used to measure our days by the sun,
Now your shadow falls where my work ain't yet done.
Same red-dirt roots, two different trees,
One of us got out, one of us never leaves.

[Bridge]
There’s a silence we tend like a garden of stone,
¿Quién te crees ahora, standing all alone?

[Outro]
The screen door slams on your daddy’s old Dodge...
Just a ghost in the gravel, fading out in the fog.