HANDS IN THE DIRT (ACT 3 SONG 10) (VA)

HANDS IN THE DIRT (LES MAINS DANS LA TERRE) [INTRO] [VERSE 1] I’ve left the dials, the numbers and the screens... To find the scent of the world before time’s machine. The steel had stolen the taste of the season’s flow... I’m back in the garden, past the prison I used to know. Here, nothing is forced, here, everything finds its day. [CHORUS] I’ve got my hands in the dirt, and my heart in the sun! I’m leaving the winter, my long sleep is done. Building with my fingers, planting for what’s to be... I’m no longer the slave, I’m becoming the free. This is where I reign, on this soil found at last! [VERSE 2] The warmth of the silt reminds me of my name... A spark of life born from the night’s own flame. Every seed is a promise, every gesture a gift... I only obey the cycles that let the soul lift. The concrete is cracking under the weight of the roots. [CHORUS] I I’ve got my hands in the dirt, and my heart in the sun! I’m leaving the winter, my long sleep is done. Building with my fingers, planting for what’s to be... I’m no longer the slave, I’m becoming the free. This is where I reign, on this soil found at last! [VERSE 3] They told me that gold shone inside a heavy vault... But the only treasure vibrates through this salt. To feel the sap rising, the sap that binds us all... To the strength of ancestors, to life’s eternal call. I’m digging my furrow in the flank of destiny. [CHORUS] I’ve got my hands in the dirt, and my heart in the sun! I’m leaving the winter, my long sleep is done. Building with my fingers, planting for what’s to be... I’m no longer the slave, I’m becoming the free. This is where I reign, on this soil found at last! [MUSICAL BREAK] [VERSE 4] I look at my palms, they are black with the truth... It’s the mark of the men who reclaimed their youth. Dared to leave the wheel, dared to lift up their eyes... To give back a meaning to the blue of all our skies. Look at what grows where everything once was dead. [CHORUS] I’ve got my hands in the dirt, and my heart in the sun! I’m leaving the winter, my long sleep is done. Building with my fingers, planting for what’s to be... I’m no longer the slave, I’m becoming the free. This is where I reign, on this soil found at last! [VERSE 5] We will be thousands to heal this broken ground... Preparing the table where the banquet will be found. No more sweat of hatred, but the sweat of pure joy... When we plant our freedom, no machine can destroy. The earth knows us now, she calls us by our names. [CHORUS] I’ve got my hands in the dirt, and my heart in the sun! I’m leaving the winter, my long sleep is done. Building with my fingers, planting for what’s to be... I’m no longer the slave, I’m becoming the free. This is where I reign, on this soil found at last! [BRIDGE] Feel the life beating under your fingertips... Nothing is lost... Everything starts again here. [VERSE 6] The gold isn’t in chaos, it’s in the seeds we sow! The sovereign man rises, he lets his poem grow! I’m planting the flag of the soul on this land... Goodbye to the machine, the light is at hand! [FINAL CHORUS] I’ve got my hands in the dirt, and my heart in the sun! I’m leaving the winter, my long sleep is done. Building with my fingers, planting for what’s to be... I’m no longer the slave, I’m becoming the free. This is where I reign, on this soil found at last! [OUTRO] On this soil... At last... (Silence)