Green thumb gold heart

Verse 1

Boot print deep in Ohio clay

Three girls helping me plant through the gray

Scrape the gravel back

Find the dirt

Water the seeds

See them work

The pavement feels heavy but the lilies don't mind

Tough roots growing till the slab starts to grind

Fences rusted and the sky is flat

Still got green rising out of all of that

Teach them early

Teach them now

Teach them how to turn this block into a vow

Chorus

Bury the concrete beneath the petal and stem

My little queens gonna reign in a floral gem

Better than the street

Better than the greed

Nature is the only thing we ever gonna need

Lancaster blue on the forget me not head

While we build a paradise in the beds we spread

Post-Chorus

Green thumb gold heart

Babies learning you gotta take part

Green thumb gold heart

Growing outta the dirt

Mud on your jeans and mud on your shirt

Growing outta the dirt

Verse 2

Staining white shirts with the blackberry juice

Vines wrap the brick let the tiger lily loose

Watch the way the nectar flows

When the fragrant honeysuckle grows

Watch the giant cabbage we sow

Watch the way the time slows

One day they won't remember the sound of the siren

Just the smell of lavender making air so vibrant

We pull the weeds till our knuckles turn brown

Hiding all the hardness of this little farm town

Don't trust the glitter on the billboard sign

Keep your eyes focused on the pumpkin vine

Peppers get hot

When the late August night is not

Show 'em how a gentle soul never really quits

Chorus

Bury the concrete beneath the petal and stem

My little queens gonna reign in a floral gem

Better than the street

Better than the greed

Nature is the only thing we ever gonna need

Lancaster blue on the forget me not head

While we build a paradise from the beds we spread

Post-Chorus

Green thumb gold heart

Little ladies learning you gotta take part

Green thumb gold heart

Growing outta the dirt

Mud on your jeans and mud on your shirt

Growing outta the dirt

Bridge

Rose thorns sharp like a jagged edge blade

Protecting every promise that we ever made

Water in the can

Life in the hand

Grace in the sand

They see the bloom where others see a waste

Teaching 'em the sugar of the heirloom taste

Verse 3

Sun sinks low over 7th Avenue

Raspberry bushes make a sweet treat for you

Keep your boots on the soil kid

Never forget where the magic hid

Better than the pavement

Better than the wires

Burning down the hunger with these floral fires

Dirt under nails is a sign of a king

Teaching my daughters how to make a garden sing

Concrete can't hold us

Gravel can't mold us

Summer finally told us

Chorus

Bury the concrete beneath the petal and stem

My little queens gonna reign in a floral gem

Better than the street

Better than the greed

Nature is the only thing we ever gonna need

Lancaster blue on the forget me not head

While we build a paradise in the beds we spread

Outro

Ohio crops

Nature's tops

Away from the cold iron

Away from the loud siren

Tulips up

Red and white cups

Watch 'em grow

Nice and slow

My paradise

In my city