Lyrics
The federal building on a Tuesday morning
Smells of ammonia and a silent warning.
Got your old denim jacket on my back
Against the chill of this fluorescent track.
[Chorus]
You taught me how to read the dirt for rain,
How a calloused hand can kill the growing pain.
But this ain't a harvest and this ain't the soil,
Just a numbered ticket for a lifetime's toil.
[Verse 2]
The woman beside me clutches a rosary,
Whispering a language God knows ain't for me.
I see your shadow by the water pump, so clear,
Wiping the diesel sweat back from all those years.
[Chorus]
You taught me how to read the dirt for rain,
How a calloused hand can kill the growing pain.
But this ain't a harvest and this ain't the soil,
Just a numbered ticket for a lifetime's toil.
[Bridge]
He calls my name, don't meet my gaze at all.
"Just sign the bottom," echoes down the hall.
Another line drawn that you can't un-see.
[Outro]
Got the seal they wanted, Papá, finally.
But it don't say Jonas, and it don't say free.
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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