
Date of issue: 06.04.2009
Record label: Concord, Rounder
Song language: English
In Another Life |
In another life |
You and I |
Worked West Virginia coal mines |
Side by side |
Collecting the black dust like sin |
The day the main shaft caved in |
I caught your eye |
As the lantern light guttered out |
And the afterdamp |
Swallowed us slowly |
I gripped your hand |
And caught a glance |
Of the next time 'round |
In another life |
You and I |
Were Red Guards in training |
Side by side |
We marched on Tiananmen |
Turned our own parents in |
For hoarding rice |
And in the Great Leap forward |
We crawled on our bellies and died |
And a blood orange sky |
Gave a cry |
Of next time 'round |
In another life |
I was married at thirteen |
You were killed at twenty-one |
On a minor battlefield |
I was buried beside |
My second stillborn child |
My last thought it seemed |
A fever dream |
Now we sink into a summer afternoon |
Central Park in June |
Marveling at the bounty |
Our days contain |
And we feel it like the shiver |
Of a passing train |
That other life |
Deep underground |
You and I |
Side by side |
We are the next time 'round |
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