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The wind has come to take me down a notch,

A peg, or a level or two

 The swollen moon has got

 Her sights set on me too

The devil sun gonna take me higher

Higher than I ever been before

 I told my mama, no

I can’t take no more

 I can’t take no more

The wind has come to take me down

 To the empty farm where I grew up on the land

 I built this childhood for a boy

 With my own two hands

I look around, them bony trees

 And sunken cows, there’s almost snow

 Nobody knows nothing

Except what me and the crow do know

Who am I to change my life?

Who am I to fuck with form?

Who am I to weather a storm?

But I go slow

I said goodbye to everyone I know

And one morning I awoke

 And I was this guy named Joe

The wind has come to take me down to the field

To dream by the light of the moon

 No, there ain’t no coming home,

 No going back, skipping June

I sit by the water down by the freeway

 The cotton is hot and the corn is high

 Don’t know what I’m going to do

 With myself tonight

Who am I to change my name?

Some things will always stay the same

There really ain’t no one to blame

Can’t expect nobody to live in that pain

But I know you miss me so

I said goodbye to everyone I know

And one morning I awoke

 And I was this guy named Joe...