
Date of issue: 31.08.2008
Song language: English
Coal |
The pillars of the world were shaking like the legs of a drunk |
Hot winds ripped the hats off all the ladies all about town that day |
Then they caught us ran us ragged beat us bloody put us in a dirty cage |
Now we’re screaming bloody murder we are starving won’t see the ocean side again |
Continents and mountain ranges boats out in the harbor |
Rivers clouds and cities all aflame |
The sun went out the sky went red the horses our dancing in their skins |
The taste of ash and sulfur on our lips |
Where is my boy, where is my son. |
I seem to have lost him in the crowd |
He was holding to my hand just a moment ago |
I know he cannot find his way he is so small he is so lean he looks like |
A scrap of paper on a branch |
I am flesh and you are pale, I am sleeping you are dead |
We’re all playing cards as the ship goes down |
We’re living as if we are not, hanging from a precipice |
Shuddering and lurching off the edge |
But someday this will all be gone, as fast a match can be struck |
Take warning for the veil is very thin |
The signs aren’t difficult to read: we tread so heavy on the ground |
And one day the ground it may give way |
I see you gilded gentlemen, I wish I’d set a torch to you while I still |
Had the freedom of my legs. |
I do not trust you with my life |
I do not trust you with my past I do not trust your hands upon the world |
But now I’m sunken in the ground, all my strength to move is gone and |
Screaming is the last recourse that I have, you’ve left us with a barren |
Earth, we know we are the aching land |
A scorching waste with all the life of coal |