[Verse 1]

He counts cattle

She counts days

Boots on the porch

Her room a cage

His voice cracks like thunder

Across the dry yard

“Girl

You ain’tmarryin’

Some penniless hand on my farm”

 

[Chorus]

But under that barn light

Flickering gold

She’s holding the boy that he’ll never know

Hay in her hair

Dust on her toes

Swearing on stars through a crack in the boards

“Love’s gonna have us

Love’s gonna have us

Love’s gonna have us

No matter what he owns”

 

 

 

[Verse 2]

She serves supper

Eyes on her plate

He blesses the food

She curses this fate

Out past the windmill

Past the old trough

Her heart beats a trail

Where the fence line runs off

 

[Chorus]

And under that barn light

Flickering gold

She’s kissing the boy that he’ll never know

Hands on her waist

Hat on the floor

Naming the future in whispers and chords

“Love’s gonna have us

Love’s gonna have us

Love’s gonna have us

Even if we’re poor”

 

 

 

[Bridge]

One day he’ll wake

And her bed will be made

Curtain still moving

From the window she raised

And miles down the road

In a borrowed old truck

She’ll lean on his shoulder

And they won’t call it luck

 

[Chorus]

‘Cause under some barn light

Far from his land

She’ll dance with the boy he called just a hand

No gates to lock

No boots to obey

Just two stubborn hearts that finally ran away

Love’s gonna have us

Love’s gonna have us

Love always has us

When we choose to stay

 

Copyright February 5, 2026, by Stephen Craig Whitley – All Rights Reserved