God's Country (song)

### From

**"God's Country"** is a song by Ethel Cain featuring Wicca Phase Springs Eternal.

## Background

In an interview with The Fader, Ethel states, "When I was writing the song I had mad climate anxiety. I was thinking about how our children won’t even know what they’re missing out on, or what they’ll need, or what they could have. *This* is god’s country?".

## Official versions

* Album version — 8:15
* "South Alabama" demo version — 7:04
* Demo 1 version — 4:19
* Demo 2 version — 9:48

## Lyrics

The road is longer than it is hard

With no one to guide you

And no one to hold

No best foot forward to sway the odds

And just a voice inside you

And a stone to throw

Could you be someone else

If someone else is what I need?

But I shouldn't ask that of you

When you're old you'll understand

But we're hurting now so what are we to do 'til then?

Cradling pictures of you

It was a highway to nowhere, and we rode it

Cold car with no gas and we chose it

Soft bodies playing in the street

Our kids will grow up with half as much

Trying to build something out of dust

Finding out too late what they need

You've tasted love and it tasted sweet

You drank the blood and bit the meat

You hold it, you hold it, you let it go

You close your eyes and count to three

You say the word and come to me

Baby, I know

Drive the pathway through the pines

And the moors of mystery

Welcome conflict and let crisis come

And shake the ground beneath

And the family secret hiding

In the farmhouse down the street

Rushes open door on your front porch

And shadows me

Taken and entirely I embraced the bonny beast

Over hills and highlands, we rode hard the passing peaks

Danger like the virgin wife, beside me she would sleep

Cherry was her dad's truck that she crashed at seventeen

I kneel before what temper broke the branches on the beach

And those thrilling highs and southern nights are always out of reach

I learned a lesson

I need to pray hard, final hours

Take care of me god

Take care of me god

You've tasted love and it tasted sweet

You drank the blood and bit the meat

You hold it, you hold it, you let it go

You close your eyes and count to three

You say the word and come to me

Baby, I know

The road is longer than it is hard

(Love overwhelms me)

With no one to guide you

(It's all that I want, and it's all that we have)

No best foot forward to sway the odds

(But is it enough?)

Just a voice inside you

(To make it worth it in the end?)

Don't sink in me with your dog teeth

Don't sink in me with your dog teeth

Don't sink in me with your dog teeth

Don't sink in me

Don't sink in me with your dog teeth

You've tasted love and it tasted sweet

You drank the blood and bit the meat

You hold it, you hold it, but you'll never know

You close your eyes and cry to me

Don't sink in me with your dog teeth

We're better off if you let go

In God's country

In God's country

If it was harder then

It will be better now

For I am here and changed

I couldn't tell you how

There before the grace of God go I

Laughing to myself

Forgetting what about

No best foot forward to sway the odds

And just a voice inside you

And a stone to throw

## References

1. ↑ https://www.thefader.com/2021/06/22/ethel-cain-interview-gods-country-video-premiere