Coal Tattoo Lyrics

In the deep dark hills of Eastern Kentucky That's the place where I trace my bloodline And it's there I read on a hillside gravestone "You'll never leave Harlan alive" Oh, my gran...Read Full Lyrics

Oh, come all you young fellers, young and so fine Seek not your fortune in the dark dreary mine It'll form as a habit and seep in your soul Till the stream of your blood runs as bl...Read Full Lyrics

Now that our mountain is growing With people hungry for wealth How come it's you that's a going And I'm left all alone by myself? We used to hunt the cool caverns Deep in our fore...Read Full Lyrics

He's hard more hard luck Than most men could stand The mines was his first love But never his friend He's lived a hard life And hard he'll die Black lung's done got him He's time i...Read Full Lyrics

Reduced into tearsCold winter gustMy diseaseYour time to shineSince the startUpholding the trustSearch your heartIt is mineUrgent and unaccidentalBroken foe in my sightStructuralSe...Read Full Lyrics

Remember the daysIn a story that endedPost mortem scarsUnable to healDeliberate wordsBrought to silenceTaking the stepInto the unrealTry to be selfishTry not to staySecondary to im...Read Full Lyrics

Treasure the dayIt won't returnStep away and let it burnFlip a coinDon't abideFriends will change you on each sideFeel the waterTender embraceCoverHidden traceWitness the detailsLe...Read Full Lyrics

Drink a cup of emptinessTame the storm, in your headPut a lid on your memoriesFighting darkness, with hollownessSilence serving your need to escapeTo think without thinkingIgnoring...Read Full Lyrics

When it beganLacking a goalTen years I ranIn hunt for a soulAdhesive flameEndless it seemsIntriguing shameToo late to redeemEveryone knowsHonest and braveWhat lies too closeSomethi...Read Full Lyrics

We didn't stop to recognizeThe thundering fogGoing down with all the liesAnonymousCubes of marble waiting to beShaped into graceHiding what you'll never seeVictoriousForgive my tea...Read Full Lyrics