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Yay for new songs!

I wrote this song with Autumn McEentire who is not only a killer singer-songwriter but an amazing gal and a dear friend.

Its the second song we wrote together and we recorded this video in the same room we wrote the song here in Nashville, which I think is pretty cool :)

On my farm, when the fields and the woods got too many briers and weeds, we would start a brush fire so the trees could grow stronger and the soil could be enriched for healthier hay. It's so fascinating to me that ashes can create more life and a better life than there was before. This songs talks about how that can happen in our lives sometimes. How it hurts, but in the long run we are stronger and better for it and our lives are even richer than before.

I hope you like it :)

BURNED THE FOREST
Autumn McEntire, Hannah Blaylock


We pulled the plow, fought off the crows
Put down some roots, and slowly watched em grow

We weathered storms, hands in the dirt
Ignored the plague, desperate to make it work


But then behind my back you planted seeds
And I did not know I was watering weeds
When I could not see the truth for the trees

CHORUS
I burned the forest, I burned the forest
I lit a match and watched it go up in flames
I burned the forest, I burned the forest
I cried a tear for the ashes then I walked away

(You broke my heart and now I'm burning the forest
Tore it apart and so Im burning the forest)


I guess I broke, snapped like a twig
Guess everybody's got a fire line and you flipped the switch

What'd you expect, I wouldn't see
I'm not the girl to eat an apple from a poison tree


You went behind my back and planted seeds
And I did not know I was watering weeds
When I could not see the truth for the trees

CHORUS
I burned the forest, I burned the forest
I lit a match and watched it go up in flames
I burned the forest, I burned the forest
I cried a tear for the ashes then I walked away

(You broke my heart and now I'm burning the forest
Tore it apart and so Im burning the forest
You broke my heart and now I'm burning the forest
Tore it apart and so Im burning the forest)

BRIDGE
And now I see the rain, wash the embers on the floor
A new field of green is growing stronger than before

CHORUS
I burned the forest, I burned the forest
I lit a match and watched it go up in flames
I burned the forest, I burned the forest
I cried a tear for the ashes then I walked away

(You broke my heart and now I'm burning the forest
Tore it apart and so Im burning the forest)