Jesse Welles - See Arkansaw

I asked the man when Texas ended
He said if yer lucky it won’t
I said i gotta a gift i gotta get to Fort Smith
I was startin' to lose all hope

The night was young when he pulled out a gun and the bullet jus' missed my nose
I thought i was delivered when i crossed the big river
I thought i knew, but i jus' didn’t know

I passed over the Ozarks
And onto the Ouachita's
I skipped from poverty to poverty
Fenced in in Arkansas, Arkansas…

I saw the soybean fields and the flat bed trucks
And i watched the concrete creep
Subdivided shoutin' on a black rock mountain
Sayin' this is how feels to be free

I read the billboard scripture
Prophesying my damnation
Reaching for his life, preachers on his third wife
Out in Branson on a big vacation

I passed over the Ozarks
And onto the Ouachita's
I skipped from poverty to poverty
Fenced in in Arkansas, Arkansas…
I saw a nuclear plant
Homegrown
And i know it ain’t fake cause they grew it in a lake
That they built jus' to cool it’s bones

And they handed out a lotta badges
And made a lotta energy
That they fired in a wire across state lines
While the state slurped up the fee

And there’s hardly a place that meth ain't
Planted a dead white kiss
You can smell it in the air you can see it in a chair
Itsa' pretty damn hard to miss

I saw a law officer shrug his whole body
Resign to an American god
Said if they wanted to, they'd would help themselves
And he put away his bible and he got out a gun

I passed over the Ozarks
And onto the Ouachita's
I skipped from poverty to poverty
Fenced in in Arkansas, Arkansas…

If god lives up in the Rocky's
If that’s where the big man meddles
Then a lesser being of a lower degree
Musta' come down here and settled
I met revelators and archimandrites
The big and the belittled
I reckon all in time, deep in my mind
We’re gonna meet in the middle

I passed over the Ozarks
And onto the Ouachita's
I skipped from poverty to poverty
Fenced in in Arkansas, Arkansas…

I can’t tell ya where one thing ended and another
Did occur
It was new and it was old to me
It was more than i could observe
If what is seen is for the taking
And the taking can be seen
I’m gonna need your help with the calculations
I can't tell ya what it all could mean

I passed over the Ozarks
And onto the Ouachita's
I skipped from poverty to poverty
Fenced in in Arkansas, Arkansas…