From the recording Back Against the Wall
Lyrics
Bills stack high like a mountain of stone,
Bank keeps callin’ on a house I own.
Fields go dry, and the stores shut down,
This whole damn country feels like a ghost town.
But I’ll bleed before I let it fall,
This home is worth the fight, worth it all.
Back against the wall, but I won’t let go,
This land runs deeper than the debt I owe.
They can raise the price, they can raise the pain,
But they can’t take my blood or my name.
Back against the wall, I’ll stand and fight,
I was born in the dark, but I’ll burn for the light.
Hard choices cut like a rusted blade,
Every dime’s already spent before it’s made.
Farms fold up, and the lights go black,
But I ain’t turnin’ ‘round, I won’t look back.
These calloused hands built more than stone,
They built a future I call my own.
Back against the wall, but I won’t let go,
This land runs deeper than the debt I owe.
They can raise the price, they can raise the pain,
But they can’t take my blood or my name.
Back against the wall, I’ll stand and fight,
I was born in the dark, but I’ll burn for the light.
You can crush the dollar, you can starve the town,
But you can’t keep the working man underground.
We bend, we break, we claw, we crawl —
Still we rise with our backs against the wall.
Back against the wall, but I won’t let go,
This land runs deeper than the debt I owe.
They can raise the price, they can raise the pain,
But they can’t take my blood or my name.
Back against the wall, I’ll stand and fight,
I was born in the dark, but I’ll burn for the light.
Back against the wall…
But I won’t let go.