Molly Brandt

Lyrics

The clouds boiled up like thunderheads
And carried a heavy load
The sky choked with the dusty topsoil
They sent me away from my home

The great plow up should never have started
There is spilled blood on this land
Life, now grey, flat, drenched in darkness
Is a graveyard of buffalo grass

The gloom, the gloom, the gloom, the gloom
Took hold and then it grew
The gloom, the gloom, impending doom
The whole world is shrouded in gloom
Don’t let it erase all of you

Millions crying for relief
With callous edge, the wind blows
While suitcase farmers in day-old towns
They journey into the unknown

Look skyward in anguish and wonder
For the plow that broke the plains
Draft dodge notice from the czar
Report to the Gulf of Pain

The hailstorm crushed the last of the wheat
The field’s an abyss of beige
Grasses gone from No Man’s Land
Never to live again
Never to live again
Never to live again
Never to live again

The gloom, the gloom, the gloom, the gloom
Took hold and then it grew
The gloom, the gloom, impending doom
The powers that be want your gloom
Don’t let it erase all of you
Don’t let it erase all of you