[Hook] They poured it thick, they poured it gray Root still come up through the crack anyway Mm anyway Put my grandmama street in the side of a highway Root still come up through the crack anyway Mm anyway We ain't loud We long (Mm) We ain't loud We long [Verse 1] Red clay don't wash out, that's the first thing you learn Get it on your good shoes, it's yours till the shoes turn Man laid down cement like cement was a verdict Like the ground signed a paper sayin' ground don't work But I seen a sidewalk lose to a seed Slow, no witness, no crowd, no speed Took eleven years and a inch at a time Now the concrete curl like a bad-wrote line They put the exit ramp where the church choir stood Called it progress, ain't nobody ask the wood Grandmama's pecan tree still out back of the lot Still drop, still feed, still don't know it got bought That's the lesson right there and it ain't in a book Don't matter what they build if they build on your root So I move like the vine on a courthouse wall Ain't in a hurry, but I'm takin' it all (Mm) [Hook] They poured it thick, they poured it gray Root still come up through the crack anyway Mm anyway Put my grandmama street in the side of a highway Root still come up through the crack anyway Mm anyway We ain't loud We long (Mm) We ain't loud We long [Verse 2] They give you a flag and they take the whole field Give you a mirror and tell you that's a shield I don't want a seat at a table I can't lift I want the tree they made the table with Water knows the low place, water don't debate Water take a hundred years to hollow out a state That's how I'm comin', patient as a flood Grandmama's patience, but my daddy's blood And I ain't sayin' burn it, I'm sayin' outlive it Whatever they built, they gotta keep it, we don't Every generation they gotta pour it again We just gotta be here, that's the whole win Boy on the porch with his hood and his math book Both of them loaded, y'all only see one look Tell him: hold the line, don't holler, hold it The quietest root is the one that broke it [Outro] Come back in a hundred years Ask the concrete how it went Mm... Red clay, red clay [Hook] They poured it thick, they poured it gray They poured it thick, they poured it gray Root still come up through the crack anyway Red clay, red clay
