Still Blood

Padgett and Coyote

Out September 10, 2026

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It doesn’t come roaring through the door. It doesn’t have to.

“Still Blood” is about the things that don’t wash off. The choices that leave a mark. The past that may disappear in the rearview mirror but somehow never gets any farther away.

Signed to Hallel Music, it’s the first word from Padgett and Coyote — two figures who arrived more like a story does, already carrying dust on their boots and something they’d rather not talk about.

Lyrics

Verse 1

Papa got his name off a powder keg Mama’s daddy bled where he lay Mammy loved hard like a desperate man, tried to beat the devil her own damn way

Verse 2

Pops old man rode home in a hearse, drunk enough not to know it’s right Big mama said if he ain’t worse, I’ll meet him on the other side

Chorus

We were an American family, born in the dirt Learned real young how to live with hurt Some say crazy, some say right We did our best just to make it through the night

Verse 3

One uncle drown in a dumpster dream Looking for gold in someone else’s trash Daddy hit rails through dust and wind, carried hope like a broken flask

Verse 4

Cousin Buddy lived down by us low, loved too hard, fought too fast Said a man’s just what he shows, when the good times don’t ever last

Verse 5

Auntie Clyde laughed at the hand she drew Uncle Powell kept a shotgun closed Said you guard what the Lord gives you Guess that’s all we ever know

Chorus

We were an American family, torn in two Now it’s mostly gone, except for you

Outro

You’re still standing, still breathing free Carrying the rest of us, with me Some say crazy, some say right Funny how love’s what’s left alive

Final

Arkansas dirt, Mississippi bone, heavy now, almost gone If blood is all man is, sing it true I’m still here because of you