Graveyard Dirt Monkey

[Verse 1]
Rust on the swings in the churchyard corner
Candy in your pocket
Pockets full of thorns
Digging with a spoon in your Sunday sneakers
Laughing at the worms like they’re your little brothers

[Chorus]
Graveyard dirt monkey
Hands all black
Eyes all bright
Building little castles
Out of somebody’s midnight
Graveyard dirt monkey
Jump that fence
Don’t look back
Got a pocket full of secrets
And your name scratched in the plaque

[Verse 2]
Momma said “don’t play past the crooked statue”
But the wind sounds sweet where the names turn green
You crown your head with a cracked glass halo
Chewing on a prayer like a piece of tangerine

[Chorus]
Graveyard dirt monkey
Hands all black
Eyes all bright
Building little castles
Out of somebody’s midnight
Graveyard dirt monkey
Jump that fence
Don’t look back
Got a pocket full of secrets
And your name scratched in the plaque

[Bridge]
You say
“If the ground can hold them
It can hold my fears” (hey!)
Then you plant your shame like marbles
In the roots of the years
If the stones don’t speak
You’ll shout for two
“You stay quiet down there
I’ll stay loud for you”

[Chorus]
Graveyard dirt monkey
Hands all black
Eyes all bright
Building little castles
Out of somebody’s midnight
Graveyard dirt monkey
Jump that fence
Don’t look back
You’re the king of every shadow
On the wrong side of the tracks