Palmetto Rose

Song Palmetto Rose
Artist Jason Isbell
Album Something More Than Free

Lyrics

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[00:12.62] Palmetto rose in the AC vent
[00:18.95] Cross stitched pillow where the head rest went
[00:24.75] Said his cab was his orneriest friend
[00:30.80] Left him jumping like trees in the wind
[00:37.00] Thought he had the red lights memorized
[00:42.72] Glass in the gravel like the stars in the sky
[00:48.58] In that slow motion minute between living and dead
[00:55.10] Looked in my eyes and he told me, he said
[01:01.00] This war that I wage to get up every day
[01:05.40] It's a fiberglass boat, it's azaleas in May
[01:10.19] It's the women I love and the law that I hate
[01:15.10] Lord let me die in the Iodine State
[01:19.70] Lord let me die in the Iodine State
[01:24.10] . . .
[01:35.10] Palmetto rose in the sidewalk mud
[01:41.50] Pearly white stem and a big green bud
[01:47.70] Catch him coming out of a King Street store
[01:53.75] Bullshit story about the Civil War
[01:59.80] You can believe what you want to believe
[02:05.72] But there ain't no making up a basket weave
[02:12.01] Everybody in the tri-county knows
[02:17.90] Who makes the best palmetto rose
[02:24.33] And it's war that we wage to get up every day
[02:28.47] It's a basket of sweet grass, a wedding bouquet
[02:33.07] It's the ladies I love and the law that I hate
[02:38.30] But Lord let me die in the Iodine State
[02:42.80] Lord let me die in the Iodine State
[02:47.64] . . .
[02:59.40] Out on Sullivan's Island, they're swimming
[03:04.00] On the beach where the big boats rolled in
[03:08.55] With the earliest slaves, women and children
[03:13.00] Our first American kin
[03:18.78] Here on King Street we're selling our roses
[03:21.99] Two for a five dollar bill
[03:26.88] And tonight after everything close
[03:31.00] I'll follow my own free will
[03:35.98] And I've taken my fill
[03:40.82] I've taken my fill