Pepper Farm Road

[Verse 1]
Dust kicks up behind the motorbike
Kampot sun is doing what I like
Pepper vines are climbing to the sky
Green and red and black beneath the eye

Farmers wave from underneath the shade
Generations in this life they've made
The finest pepper that the world has known
Right here on this road of laterite and stone

[Chorus]
Pepper Farm Road, take me where the green grows
Pepper Farm Road, where the Mekong river flows
Through the countryside where time moves slow
Down Pepper Farm Road

[Verse 2]
Stop the bike and walk between the rows
Smell the earth, the way the pepper grows
A farmer's daughter shows me how they dry
The harvest laid beneath the Kampot sky

She says her grandma grew these vines before
Through the war and peace and so much more
The pepper kept their family on the land
Some things you only grow to understand

[Chorus]
Pepper Farm Road, take me where the green grows
Pepper Farm Road, where the Mekong river flows
Through the countryside where time moves slow
Down Pepper Farm Road

[Bridge]
Salt and sun and centuries of care
That's the secret in the Kampot air
Every harvest tells the story right
Of land and love and golden evening light

[Verse 3]
Back on the bike as afternoon turns gold
Bokor Mountain standing dark and bold
I'll carry Kampot with me when I leave
The taste of pepper clinging to my sleeve

Someday I'll come back and stay a while
Learn the farmer's patient knowing smile
But for now the road keeps calling me
Through the pepper farms to the southern sea

[Chorus]
Pepper Farm Road, take me where the green grows
Pepper Farm Road, where the Mekong river flows
Through the countryside where time moves slow
Down Pepper Farm Road

[Outro]
Down Pepper Farm Road... where the green grows...