Pines Keep Secrets

**[Verse 1]**  
Down these red clay roads where the kudzu climbs high,  
Moonlight drippin' slow on the old sawmill sign.  
I park my rusted Chevy 'neath them tall loblolly pines,  
Where the Spanish moss hangs like forgotten valentines.  
Heard my daddy's last words in the whisper of the breeze,  
'Bout buried regrets and the ghosts in these trees.  

**[Chorus]**  
Oh, the pines keep secrets, darlin', they don't ever tell,  
Lovers lost in the needles, hearts ringin' like a bell.  
In the pines, in the pines, where the sun don't ever shine,  
They hold onto the sorrow, and they make it feel like mine.  
Yeah, the pines keep secrets... and they're keepin' mine tonight.  

**[Verse 2]**  
She left me in '93 with a note on the dash,  
Said "Head north, baby, this town's movin' too fast."  
I buried that ring under roots by the creek so deep,  
Now the wind through the branches makes the promises weep.  
Fireflies dancin' like neon in a faded honky-tonk dream,  
But nothin' shines brighter than what could've been.  

**[Chorus]**  
Oh, the pines keep secrets, darlin', they don't ever tell,  
Broken bottles and bibles hidin' stories so well.  
In the pines, in the pines, where the cold wind starts to moan,  
They cradle the heartache, never leave it alone.  
Yeah, the pines keep secrets... and they're keepin' mine tonight.  

**[Bridge]**  
(Slow it way down here, echo heavy, like time standin' still)  
If you listen real close when the night gets black,  
You'll hear the train whistle callin' her back...  
But she ain't comin', no, she ain't comin' home.  
These old pines just sway, and they swallow the sound.  

**[Final Chorus]**  
[Fade out with layered whispers and reverb]
Oh, the pines keep secrets, y'all, buried way down low,  
Sins of the South in the shadows they grow.  
In the pines, in the pines, where the sun don't ever shine,  
We shiver when the memories come creepin' through the vines.  
Yeah, the pines keep secrets... Lord, they're keepin' mine tonight.  
The pines keep secrets... forever in the pines...  

**[End with a long, echoing steel guitar slide and faint wind samples, looping into silence like a vaporwave sunset over the bayou.]**

Outlaw Country, Lo-Fi Chillwave, Deep Voice, Slowed Heavy Reverb, Southern Gothic, Dark Anericana, Neo-folk, Delta Blues