White Crosses Lyrics - Scream & Whisper - Edwin Mccain

Well I packed all of my things into this blanket 

To call this year to earn coyotes fill 

Kiss my wife and kids goodbye choke back the quiver in my breath 

And took my first steps into this corridor of death 

If I'm lucky I will make it to a drain 

With 500 of my brothers, I would share the strain 

Of standing in this boxcar praying for rain 

It's the only the way we will quench our thirst 

[Chorus:] 

In these gardens of white crosses 

Growing in the California sand 

In these gardens of white crosses 

We are the children of poverty trying to a make a stand 

If we make it past the border, we will scatter 

Vanish just like smoke in autumn wind 

I will run until my color will not matter 

Hopin' I can find some work or possibly a friend 

There are others who have made it here 

They will show me how to find a job and a place to lay my head 

And I cannot be concerned with dreams of my children 

For there are 5 others in line for my bed 

[Chorus:] 

In these gardens of white crosses 

Growing in the California sand 

In these gardens of white crosses 

We are the children of poverty trying to a make a stand 

I will gladly pick your peaches or clean your hotel rooms 

I will do the jobs American won't do 

With cell phones to their heads and $700 dollar shoes 

I will risk my life 'cause it's all I have to lose 

Let the devil in the mountains promise me a ride 

Found an 18 wheeler and put all of us inside 

And just outside of victory, 19 of us died 

None of our bodies hit the floor 

And so my wife she still wonders when I'm coming home 

The riches that I promised her for leaving her alone 

I said I would send her all that I could save 

But I ended up in California in an unknown grave 

[Chorus:] 

In these gardens of white crosses growing in the California sand 

In these gardens of white crosses we are the children of poverty trying to a make a stand 

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