The Majestic Twelve - Whispering lyrics

Sometimes you can hear it like a rhythm through the crickets And the hum of the cars as they motor towards the beach Hovering on the water like a ripple of the moon On an eight foot tide, and the lights of the Lumina Shine from the screen that they stuck up in the water Children stare at movie stars who float above the sea Tobacco barn smoke and a scary walk home Spanish moss blowing like bodies in the trees All the folks who loved this dirt still stay In the breeze and in the shadows, they live here They never go away And my Grandma's dad is out there Where the road turns into drawbridge Swinging his old lantern every time that there's a storm And that woman that he widowed That's my Mamaw all around us Making sure her babies are all proud, and strong, and warm And their pictures, they're not faded They're hung up and they're framed Staring down at children who are proud to wear their names And one day I will stand beside them whispering Whispering, whispering to you my love I grew up with the stories of the storms Rain in the house and an angry sea But they were country proud, country tough And Hazel only made it halfway up the bluff When the Depression hit they held on and fought They worked when they could and ate what they caught So this little piece of rundown land Is where I sleep, and pray, and stand All the ghosts, the marsh, the storms, and me We sleep in the azaleas We rise above and breathe And my Grandma's dad is out there Where the road turns into drawbridge Swinging his old lantern every time that there's a storm And that woman that he widowed That's my Mamaw all around us Making sure her babies are all proud, and strong, and warm And their pictures, they're not faded They're hung up and they're framed Staring down at children who are proud to wear their names And one day I will stand beside them whispering Whispering, whispering to you my love One day I will stand beside them whispering Whispering, whispering to you my love My family's whispering Richard and Jack, Austin and Joyce Snookie, Doris Ellen, all in one voice Mama and Dad, Jolyon and Bud Singing all night beside the Summer Rest mud Colin and Rachael, Amanda and Jay Firework nights and hide and seek days Mamac and Mamaw cooking in the kitchen All of us cousins crabbing and fishing