[Verse 1]
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Sometimes in the summer, it'll lightnin', it'll thunder
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But the rain don't seem to come it rolls on by
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Thunder sounds like laughter, as the lightning hits the pasture
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and you know that has lands been dry for some time
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And it burns and it burns, oh it burns
[Verse 2]
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The river it stopped flowin' back through town some time ago
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and the train tracks rest below a bed of weeds
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The truck stop shut its door on the day that oil hit a hundred and four dollars a barrel
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Yall then the grocery store came next and then the bank
[Pre-chorus]
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And it burns oh it burns, it burns
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Oh it burns, yeah it burns, oh it burns
[Chorus]
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You do the things you know to just to make it by the day
A G
You can hear the kids a cryin', but there's just no time to play
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You work the way you know how just the way you've always done
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and you'd like to curse the skies that bring no rain or block the sun
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And it burns
[Instrumental]
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[Verse 3]
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Sometimes when it's rainin' and there seems there ain't no stoppin'
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and a storm surge rushes past and all goes down
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That river roars with laughter as it strips away the pasture land
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the home you built and worked with your own hands
[Pre-chorus]
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And it rains, oh it rains, yeah it rains
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And it rains, oh it rains, yeah it rains
[Chorus]
Bm D
You do the things you know to just to make it by the day
A G
You can hear the kids a cryin', but there's just no time to play
Bm D
You work the way you know how just the way you've always done
A G
and you'd like to curse the skies that bring the rain and block the sun
Bm
And it rains
[Outro]
Bm Bm
Sometimes in the summer, it'll lightnin', it'll thunder
A Bm
But the rain don't seem to come it rolls on by