[Verse 1]
Black dirt on my Sunday shoes
Sweat rings through this secondhand suit
Cross hangs crooked on the rearview glass
Bible on the dash
Flask in the back
[Chorus]
Hallelujah in the black dirt
I been praying through the bad hurt
Every promise tastes like rust
Every blessing falls to dust
Hallelujah in the black dirt
If you're listening
Make it stop first
‘Fore I drown here in this blood-red mud
Sing my black dirt hallelujah
[Verse 2]
Mama's voice in a static phone
Says
"Boy
Sin just brings you home"
I say
"Ma
I don't see no gate
Just a busted fence and a heavy weight"
[Chorus]
Hallelujah in the black dirt
I been praying through the bad hurt
Every promise tastes like rust
Every blessing falls to dust
Hallelujah in the black dirt
If you're listening
Make it stop first
‘Fore I drown here in this blood-red mud
Sing my black dirt hallelujah
[Bridge]
I buried my name by the riverbank (oh)
Watched it sink where the cotton sank
If grace is a ghost in a white-sheet wind
Let it tear this broken skin
[Chorus]
Hallelujah in the black dirt
I been praying through the bad hurt
Every promise tastes like rust
Every blessing falls to dust
Hallelujah in the black dirt
If you're listening
Make it stop first
‘Fore I drown here in this blood-red mud
Sing my black dirt hallelujah
[Outro]
[Harmonica wails over fading strum]