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Blackhawk Farms

from Richer Soil by Derek Nelson

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I’m not one for secrets
There’s a place you all should know
On the border of Wisconsin
Where daddy used to go
They’d roll the cars off trailers
And find some solid ground
And leave behind their failures
And put some rubber down

I’m talking about Blackhawk Farms
Where the sun hasn’t set
And the light hasn’t left you
Blackhawk Farms
Where the Michelins sing
And the phone doesn’t ring
Oh, Blackhawk farms
Where the road still turns and bends
But in ways we comprehend
How his heart was on the mend
Behind that wheel.

We’ve got them in the corners
They’ve got us on the straights
For every inch of engine
They’ve got miles of mistakes.
I’ve never paid attention
to the plots of mice and men
gonna take some more king’s horses
to make me whole again.

Blackhawk Farms
Where the sun hasn’t set
And the light hasn’t left you
Blackhawk Farms
With the tires on the rack
And the dogs out back
Oh, Blackhawk farms
Where the road still turns and bends
But in ways we comprehend
How his heart was on the mend
Behind that wheel.

I’ve got my limits
And I’m sure you’ve got some too.
It’s just, mine are at the office park
Not the trees off of turn two.
Sometimes it can feel like
They set this world to self-destruct
that’s why I’m coming back
To a world that I can trust.

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from Richer Soil, released October 10, 2019

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“Derek Nelson has been one of Chicago’s finest songwriters for about a decade now … [He] delivers a few lines of shocking honesty and vulnerability and continues to roll on so easily you have to go back and listen again to make sure you heard it right.” - Music Defined ... more

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