Lyrics
[Intro] [Verse] Sun beating down on the back of my neck (Huh!) Sweat stinging eyes and the fields are a wreck (Hah!) I was plowing a line, making it straight and true 'Til you drove a stake where the corn once grew. Ain't no water in the creek, just a bed of dry stone And a feeling in my gut moving deep inside my bones. Something crossed the line, stepped on my heel Now the burning heat ain't the only thing that I feel... [Chorus] Got a red dust rising! (Blocking out the sky!) Got a fever breaking! (And I’m asking why!) This anger ain't the devil, it ain't the sin It’s the hammer swinging when the walls close in It tells me something’s broken, tells me something ain't right Feels like a wild horse running through the night! [Verse] I saw a rattler sleeping by the garden gate Coiled up quiet, it just waits and waits. You can’t walk past it, you can’t let it slide Or you gonna get bit on your own backside. That’s the anger talking, sharp as a fang It ain't there to kill you, it ain't there to hang It’s telling you "Hey now, don't you walk that way" "Unless you want that poison to ruin your day." [Chorus] Got a red dust rising! (Blocking out the sky!) Got a fever breaking! (And I’m asking why!) This anger ain't the devil, it ain't the sin It’s the hammer swinging when the walls close in It tells me something’s broken, tells me something ain't right Feels like a wild horse running through the night! [Bridge] Well, the boss man says "Boy, quiet that noise." But the silence brings trouble more than he knows If I swallow my fire, then I'll lose my voice. And I'll lose where I'm heading down on this road I got to use this hammer to fix this fence! And embrace this heat before I don't make sense! I ain't burning down the barn, I’m clearing out the brush Before the whole dang valley turns to dust! [Outro] It’s a tool, Lord. (Huh!) Not a weapon. (Hah!) Just a signal. (Huh!) Pay attention. (Hah!) Fix the boundary. Mend the line. Work it out... Work it out...