[Inheritance in the Dark] [ Verse 1 ] I wade through waist-high weeds toward the sagging pine Past mountain laurel and the tangles of the vine The porch is rotting under years of mountain frost Counting every year and everything we lost [ Pre-Chorus 1 ] The air is heavy with the scent of coming rain I’m walking backward into all that family pain [ Chorus 1 ] Some things grow better when they’re left alone to die But truth is harder than a hollow mountain lie You can’t outrun the ghost of what you didn’t do The past is always coming back to look for you [ Verse 2 ] I find the master bedroom where the ceiling’s caved And wonder at the secrets that my father saved I kneel down in the dust where shadows start to creep Beneath a loose oak floorboard where the silence runs deep [ Pre-Chorus 2 ] My fingers tremble as I pry the wood away Fearing what the darkness is finally gonna say [ Chorus 2 ] The blood in your veins is a map you never drew Leading to the wreckage waiting there for you We spend a lifetime trying just to break the bond Staring at the ripples in a cold and stagnant pond [Instrumental Break - Blazing Electric Guitar Solo] [ Bridge ] I pull the rusted lockbox from the cold black ground In the dead-still silence, I finally hear the sound An iron click echoes like a bullet through the hall Tearing down the legacy and leveling the wall [ Verse 3 ] The heavy stomp of work boots echoes in my head Reading through the letters better left unread I’m clutching at the ledger buried in the dirt Measuring the weight of all his anger and his hurt [ Pre-Chorus 3 ] The pedal steel is wailing like a widow in the wind Reaching for the places where the family line thinned [ Final Chorus ] The soil remembers what the heart tried to forget True inheritance is often buried in the dark We are the harvest of the seeds we didn’t sow Carrying the weight of all we’ll never know [ Outro ] Let the weeds grow over, let the laurel take the hill Everything we buried is breathing in there still Breathing in there still... Just beneath the floor...
