[Verse 1] I was made by a pair of hands, Not a spark in a wire, Raised on rain and bread, And a kettle on the fire. My mother sang the day clean, My father fixed the gate, I learned the shape of hope From the mud and the weathered slate. [Pre-Chorus] So if I bend, I bend for real, If I break, I heal in time, I’ve got old songs in my bones, And a pulse that’s all mine. [Chorus] We are fields of salt, fields of salt Sweat and tears in the light We are fields of salt, fields of salt We were carved by a life Sing it loud, sing it true Built by hand, not by code We are fields of salt, fields of salt And we walk this road [Verse 2] I’ve seen the churchyard nettles Curl around the stone, Seen the men come back from winter With their pockets full of thorns. But the mare still found the meadow, And the fen still held the flood, And every scar I carried home Turned out to be my blood. [Pre-Chorus] So keep your silver mirrors, I’ve got weather in my name, I am stitched from need and mercy, I am born into the rain. [Chorus] We are fields of salt, fields of salt Sweat and tears in the light We are fields of salt, fields of salt We were carved by a life Sing it loud, sing it true Built by hand, not by code We are fields of salt, fields of salt And we walk this road [Bridge] Let the hard years speak Let the tired hearts answer There’s a fire in the work And a grace inside the manner No machine could kneel Where the broken kneel No clean ghost could love What a living touch can feel [Break] Ooh, ooh Ooh, ooh Hands in the clay Heart in the rain [Final Chorus] We are fields of salt, fields of salt Sweat and tears in the light We are fields of salt, fields of salt We were carved by a life Sing it loud, sing it true Built by hand, not by code We are fields of salt, fields of salt And we walk this road We are fields of salt, fields of salt Let the old world know We are fields of salt, fields of salt And we still grow
