Zac Brown Band - Junkyard Lyrics

213 people suck at music.... this
Is a powerful song

I actually like the other version (older) of this song but I can't seem to find it anywhere on here at all!

Very good song/story. Can someone recommend any similar?

is it just me or does the start sound like heavy is the head?

So WHERE THE FUCK DID THIS COME FROM? Since when does The Zack Brown Band make what sounds like some kind of blend of Stoner Rock and Country?? This almost has some Doom Metal mixed in with it.

best group in the world

dude I know that junkyard.....

I like the longer version

Lol put Ddlc in this

Zac Brown band is GREAT at rock songs

This is my new favorite song

Woah those lyrics strikes deep into your soul

Fucking awesome! South brazil fan!

This has a wyatt family feel to it for some reason

This song has helped me emerge from a very dark place. Thank you so much for writing it Zac.

ho...ly......fuck

I don't see a boy at all. Just the girl, her mother and abusive father. Th narration just moves around a lot.

Wow? Made me feel awful, creepy, but what a band right? If this isn't speaking from experience ....Not sure what to make of this whether its coming from a victim or sadistic pleasrurisrt? Can't get into it its a bit sick

Beginning sounds like Black Woods by Stoned Jesus, but this is badass.

they wouldn't dare play this on a country station cause it isn't about girls, beer, trucks, or moonshine kisses. this song is too awesome for the radio anyway. let's keep it between the true fans

Warren Peay its a rock sojg, thats why it isnt played on country radio.

There is such a thing as country rock though

Warren Peay its an awesome song i heard it on the country station. Lotta good deep/ meaningful songs like this seem to be played on there🌻

Warren Peay or maybe because it’s rock, not country 🙄

Good song I love the song

I could see myself doing a cover of this on a 7 string guitar and vocals.

thelittlest potato do a hardcore punk cover, the angst in the song is just begging for it

Anyone else hearing Man in the Box in the beginning? Also, he mentions "Jar of Flies" in a verse. Coincidence or was it an homage to AiC?

Feels like im in a VR headset

The best I can tell, it's about domestic abuse. The boy is him. The girl is his sister. The Junkyard man is the father. He abuses them both. The thing about the sewn mouth and screaming, a lot of times, the abuser will threaten the life of their victim if they tell. So she uses her eyes to tell her story. Near the end, it talks about waking up to broken glass. That tells me that the mother and father were fighting. He has an old bone pocket knife to save his mother from the junkyard man. Meaning, in order to save his life and his families, he's going to stab and kill his father. They escape. The father dies alone. That's his reality. At the "I'm not sick. I am lovely. Hatred is the curse of man. I've washed my hands you see. That's my reality." Once he escaped. He forgave his father for years of abuse. Hatred is worthless. He cleansed himself of his past. Domestic abuse is a real issue nonetheless. Once you escape it, you have a choice. You can either play the victim for the rest of your life or you can cleanse yourself of your past and not let it define who you are as a person now.

This is about him and his mother in a domestic abuse situation

Steve Wood you'll find most songs have a story behind them

No you dont lol Zac has told that story on TV many times, keep dreaming

Steve Wood 🤯

@Ryan Fairclough most country songs do. not so many rap and pop in my opinion

good song for WWE 2K17

they could use it for Luke harper when he returns

when he talks about the girl with her mouth sown shut is he talking about his sister or mom and what is the dad doing to her

Do these guys have any other songs of this style - heavier rock type? Sounds good.

Heavy in the head

They've also done covers of some other songs

do they play this song on the tour they're on right now?

+Steven Robertson I hope so

This is a great song, but the tail of it is even better, and It would be nice if they stretched it just a little longer.

there's a 7min version lol

I'll look it up then!

" Her mouth was sewn together" and " I had I bone knife tied in my right hand" and " I wake up to broken glass" you know just everyday creepy.

Well, I was raised underneath the shade of a Georgia pine
And I have lived in a junkyard, where the weeds eat up the rain
And that's home ya know
My house is not much to talk about

It's funny how it's the little things in life that mean the most
Not where you live, or what you drive, or the price tag on your clothes
He had a sick little girl, dirty and hard, with a breastplate made of metal
She drives all day in her rust heap Buick, and her feet don't reach the pedals

Got a jar of flies, her father's disguise where his heart should be
I like to feel the sunrise, see the love in my woman's eyes
Her mouth is sewn together; she screams with those eyes
Yeah, she screams with those eyes...like our chicken fried

Well, I shoulda been sleeping, shoulda been dreaming, but I wake up to broken glass.
There's no dollar sign on peace of mind, this I've come to know.
There'll be one more empty desk in my homeroom class.
So, if you agree have a drink with me, raise your glasses for a toast.
Got an old bone pocketknife tight in my right hand
To save my poor mother from the junkyard man.

I thank god for my life. He's as sick as he is lovely, and in need of a hand
He will know he's not worthy. When he dies alone you'll see, that's his reality.
Salute the one's who died. Hatred is the curse of man.

I will not feel unworthy, 'cause I have washed my hands you see
For a little bit of chicken fried
Cold beer on a Friday night
A pair of jeans that fits just right
And a radio, oh you see
That's my reality.

horns up

Chicken Fried sucks

That's perfect combination of those two great songs

Zach Brown, stay Down! U are the man

The full 7 minute version is much better IMO

Roger Barnes in case u were curious Jim

Sorry Zach I had too. But I stayed PC? Right

And Jim Plays Guitars. Don't worry brother, he never turned his back on you or country, it's u that turned your back on Zach Brown. Country is still alive and well. On" the Voice" and I'm wondering if your still eating that same PB and J sandwich for lunch everyday u work..... Expand or Contract but don't put ur thoughts on blAst, about art. When obviously your stuck in a rut......

Oh yeah check my stuff out too🤔

Didn't even really care for this band until I heard this song👌🏻✨

if anyone watches GATE "" its a anime series... is it just me or the ending of the song sounds a bit identical.. xD

Great song

I love this!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I have the album Jekyll + Hide and it is AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Zac Brown is number 1 in my book for being able to pull of different genre's so well. Hard Rock here, religious over there, and a bit of country here and there. LOVE IT.

+Linda Downs Don't forget about the pop in the corner.

Love it.

also dont forget about that sir rosevelt shit

My father and sister both love Zac Brown and listen to him incessantly. Overall I've liked some of his stuff but not too much mostly because I'm not a country guy. But this song... Fantastic. This is where me and my family really find a common ground. Hope he keeps doing stuff like this.

this song is about abuse?

love the vibe

The first version of "Junkyard" was so much better. Way too much production!

i feel like listen to Alice in Chains

went to his concert in Columbus was hoping to hear this song!! He didn't play this song or heavy.. but it was a awesome concert

such an eloquent song....should be the sound track to a Mad Max Movie...My fav on the album!

Man I love this song!!! Keep up the good work guys👍🏻

this is almost the best song he has ever made but we all know the best is chicken fried

I'm a metalhead through and through, so obviously I HATE countru music. But I was listening to the radio one day and heard this and the lyrics grabbed me. I love it! Deep and dark, just the way I like it

Its Swamp Rock, hombre.

I wouldn't assume a metalhead hates country. I listen to both and love both

I am not a country guy. At all. And this song is a masterpiece.

this song is more rock, I think that's why you like it if you don't really country

+Haily Warren eh it is but it isn't.. zac brown is a lot like dave matthews. he knows how to blend genres. good music isn't specified by a certain genre, but how the artist feels :)

This is the best country song ive heard in a long time! Should b in rock genre

+Penny Grames It's the second Rock Radio single from Jekyl and Hyde.

When I think of Zac brown I think of jimmy buffet type music and the happy gulf coast.. Not this..

Their going into rock music. Their still awesome!

this is not zac brown band....

+Kevin Burnett Actually it is and was written many years ago. It is on their live Album Pass the Jar with Richie Apparol singing Zac's parts and Zac singing John Driscoll Hopkins part. It was silently different but every bit as heavy and hard.

listen to shamans harvest on here people for a great underrated band

maybe I was wrong bout the zac Brown band

you where d

reminds me of Michael myers a little bit

heard this on the radio today, no idea who it was, what the song title was. found it... super impressed there's new music out there that hits me like this. love it!

Is it just me, or Peter Dreimanis from July Talk sings in the chorus ?

They left out the instrumental sequence in between the second refrain and the third verse. I always felt that that was the most powerful and dark part of the song.

Yeah because they ripped that part off from pink floyds "anybody out there" from the wall

+tyler Stotz they didn't rip it off that's the actual sequence. it's credited on the album

Thats because the instrumental is a Pink Floyd song

lyrically dynamic. The music is powerful and matches the message. You choose to not be a victim, to not believe what an oppressive abuser does to you and to know that some of the most beautiful creations grow from very ugly beginnings.

I'm not sick I am lovely

Damn good song

Love this song!! sounds almost like a little alice in chains mixed with some corrosion of conformity with a silverchair guitar sometimes!! Cant believe its the first time Ive heard it.

Ok, i have a question. Zac said this is a song about redemption. How so? Because he killed his father? Someone please answer

+Robby Boggus but how?

Zac Brown killed his father?

+Pekka _ Rinne35 because of the abuse? I know the songs not really based on zac though

Sick song

I don't know why but when I hear this song, it makes me think of horror movies like Silent Hill, Wrong Turn, and Texas Chainsaw Massacre. The imagery and lyrics of this video make me think of those movies for some strange reason.

Well I can see wrong turn maybe, but the songs actually about child abuse.

that is so damn sick!!

this should have more views ya'll

disappointed :/

if your just disappointed that's it not country you need to realize it's not always going to be country

34 morons detected!! 😡

no one asked for your opinion next time you got an idea like this instead just drink bleach so the rest of a favor did the filth!!!

Second song on rock radio and I approve whole heartily! Zac Brown knows what good music is!

download choices would be a nice option

Serious Thrice vibes of this one!

I've found it interesting how the best original songs, lyrically, on "JEKYLL + HYDE" happen to be their rock-heavy releases.............when country has traditionally been the lyrically-centric genre and rock the more groove-oriented one. If this and "Heavy Is The Head" are any indication, they should use those songs as inspiration for improving their lyricism on subsequent country recordings.

Even though I prefer earlier renditions of this more preceding their major-label breakthrough "The Foundation", this is still a damn well-written song with a visceral gut-punching payoff. Definitely better than at least 90% of what currently congests Active Rock radio. I'm actually hoping the Zac Brown Band succeed in continuing to develop themselves as a staple act of the format so they can begin to make Active Rock consistently listenable for the first time since the Black Crowes and Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers stopped picking up consistent Top Ten hits in the mid-to-late 90s.

I love this song to death, in fact it might be my favorite on the Jekyll & Hyde album but they totally shortened the lyric video!!! The jam out musical solo's are sooooo good on this song and they shouldn't be cut off!!!

@Summer Coleman possibly a radio cut?

I love this song so much, it is by far my favorite of theirs

Lyrically, their best song by far.

Holy shit this is by far the best song on this album. It gives me goosebumps every time I hear it. The lyrics are haunting and dark. I am digging the grit and the hard rock side of this song. Totally blown away by this one. Absolutely amazing.

You have any idea what it means. I'm lost lol

KrampusPlague it's about a kid living with his mom and a step dad/boyfriend that is abusive. At least that's what I took from it.

What are they a heavy metal band now

@Scott Kalen This isn't heavy metal it's hardrock. And they have always said since day one that their is a lot of southern and hard rock influence in their sound.

+Erin McNally plus they had Overnight on the other album too. That's exactly why I love them. They play whatever the hell they want. Whoever said you had to have all the same type of music on a cd? I completely agree.

Zac if you guys are gonna be making remakes of songs. You should do a remake of "on this train" and put it on an album so it is available on iTunes. I have been a zac brown since I can remember and when I met you at the eat and greet I told you this then. This songs has been my favorite song since I first started listening to you guys.

@Alan Barwick This isn't a cover or "remake" they wrote it.

@Erin McNally It's a remake of their own song...

+Erin McNally I'm aware of that. Their original version is better than this version

So is "on this train" guys. I think he meant if they're going to be redoing their songs.. As in making them harder.. Anyway.. That song would be great to amp up. And as far as this one goes, I like them both. The first as far as beat, but I like the instruments used in this and where they were taking it.. I just wish they would've stayed a little more towards the original.. There's just a few pieces that need adjusting

I personally like the live version better

Seriously Jekyll & Hyde haha I did not expect that

I am an avid ZBB fan but i have to say that i wasn't too impressed with this one.

i'm fully supportive of them branching out and i love the new album. its just this particular one that I don't care for. thank you for not hating 

@Yanley If you're an avid ZBB fan, you should know that this isn't a new song. A live version was on the Pass the Jar album. And just a suggestion...because you're certainly entitled to your opinion...but you should look into the meaning of the lyrics. You might just change your mind. :)

@tam o oh i just meant i love the new album because it offers a lot of different types. and i'm definitely not saying the lyrics are bad, just not my style 

have you herd the live version of this song

Thats because you dont appreciate real music, Zac wrote this when he was 14

I really love how they are doing rock type songs!

The whole Pink Floyd's "Is there anybody out there" sample was removed. My favorite part

@markemark513 Why did they get rid of that? That would have made this song a million times better than it already is.

My favorite ZBB song! I love how this video is fitting to the words; grungy and dark, and not "prettied up". Great job guys!!!

best song ever!! y'all need to come to Louisiana soon!!!!

Will this be played on the country or rock stations or both?

probably rock

Absolutely brilliant song, love this band so much

They cut out the best part. Hope they release this to the rock stations and another on country radio

Is it in the new album?

Yes, but it is much longer

Wow that's powerful

Oh hell yeah.