Red Gravel Swing

Chorus

Red shoes on the gravel

Swing the hammer

Swing the blade

Swing the match to light the cave

I won't beg

I won't plead

I won't bend my bruised knee

Verse 1

Pockets full of copper pennies

Lost the luck I never had in this town

Spinning wild

Dizzy on a rusty wire

Trying not to look at the cracks in the street

Pre-Chorus

Better run fast

Better run far

Before the sky starts turning black

Chorus

Red shoes on the gravel

Swing the hammer

Swing the blade

Swing the match to light the cave

I won't beg

I won't plead

I won't bend my bruised knee

Bridge

Cut the rope

Cut the cord

Cut the tie that binds the bone

Nothing left to carry

Nothing left to sell

Going down the hole alone

Verse 2

Screaming at the canyon walls

Thunder crashing like a million broken plates

No more masks

Watching all the paint peel off

Searching for a door that isn't locked up tight

Pre-Chorus

Better run fast

Better run far

Before the sky starts turning black

Chorus

Red shoes on the gravel

Swing the hammer

Swing the blade

Swing the match to light the cave

I won't beg

I won't plead

I won't bend my bruised knee

Post-Chorus

Won't bend down

Won't bend down

No no no

Won't bend down

Won't bend down

Yeah

I won't bend my bruised knee