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RUST REMEMBERS THE DOOR
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Verse 1
They set one table in the yard and counted every share The rule was painted on the barn in letters broad and square A larger neighbor walked the road from moonrise into morn The wolves stayed in the tree line when his lantern crossed the corn No column named the borrowed peace; no debt was ever shown They praised the kindly patch of earth for guarding them alone
Chorus
Rust remembers the door Beneath the coats of white, the old iron keeps the score You can teach the yard the fence is what the fence was for But rust remembers, rust remembers the door
Verse 2
The ledger left the table for a locked room down the hall By dawn a careful extra clause stood drying on the wall Those quoting older letters heard, "You must have read it wrong" The dictionary shed a word whenever talk ran long They folded "taken" into "shared," made "question" mean "confused" With nothing left to call the loss, they swore that nothing moved
Chorus
Rust remembers the door Beneath the coats of white, the old iron keeps the score You can teach the yard the fence is what the fence was for But rust remembers, rust remembers the door
Verse 3
The parlor screens grew wall to wall with kindness in their tone They showed the golden harvest, left the empty bins alone One child kept older papers underneath a loosened board Then men who carried kerosene came softly through the door They named the burning "hygiene"; the smoke was "weather," plain By dawn the former headline bore the morning's words again
Chorus
Rust remembers the door Beneath the coats of white, the old iron keeps the score You can teach the yard the fence is what the fence was for But rust remembers, rust remembers the door
Verse 4
The shoulders that had pulled the most went narrow with the years The granary kept all his strength; his knees kept all the wear When one gave way, a wagon came before the morning meal The screens described a greener place with clover in the fields No hoofprint crossed the homeward road, no letter found the gate By supper, someone younger wore the number on his plate
Bridge
Then chairs grew tall at table's head; the speakers learned to stand They balanced on two polished legs with ashwood canes in hand The posters kept the people's word beneath each smiling face The coats and keys and measured laughs were cut in landlord shape The hungry at the fence looked in through breath upon the glass And could not tell the people's men from masters of the past
Verse 5
The child who kept the paper grew to shoulders bent and gray One night he scraped the fencepost where the white paint flaked away Two rusted hinge marks held their ground beneath the newest coat The yard had not imagined it; a doorway scarred the post He passed the page beneath the rail, too low for screens to show And showed the youngest where the path had been before it closed
Chorus
Rust remembers the door Beneath the coats of white, the old iron keeps the score You can teach the yard the fence is what the fence was for But rust remembers, rust remembers the door
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They set one table in the yard and counted every share The rule was painted on the barn in letters broad and square
Rust remembers the door Beneath the coats of white, the old iron keeps the score
Rust remembers the door Beneath the coats of white, the old iron keeps the score
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- Release date of this source
- August 21, 2026
- This source on YouTube · Eastern
- August 20, 2026
- Playlist addition · Eastern
- August 21, 2026
- Duration
- 5:16
- YouTube views
- 58
- Catalog source video ID
- LIvEfh80hw0