Burnin' by Lara Manzanares

:Oh it’s burnin’
Out on the hillside
Oh yeah, it’s burnin’ burnin’ down:

Well when daddy’s old tires
Became a funeral pyre
For the horses whose hind legs
Got stuck in the wire
She shot ‘em all down
Yeah, what could she do
When you don’t have no money
You do what you gotta do

:Oh it’s burnin’
Out on the hillside
Oh yeah, it’s burnin’ burnin’ down:

Well the smoke it burns black
‘Gainst the crystal blue sky
And mama is cryin’
With soot in her eyes
As she tends to the flames
With the sun at her back
There is no end in sight
To the shadow that’s cast

:Oh it’s burnin’
Out on the hillside
Oh yeah, it’s burnin’ burnin’ down:

Oh, I remember it well
How the godawful smell
Of desolation and despair
Billowed up in the air
And the deep deathly silence
That belied the violence
That crackled and popped everywhere

::Oh it’s burnin’
Out on the hillside
Oh yeah, it’s burnin’ burnin’ down::

• Country
• Folk
• Latin
• alt-country
• country
• cowpunk
• folk rock
• singer-songwriter
• southwest
• Albuquerque