Bluehorses - Mining Song lyrics

Open up your lungs to dust We're lambs unto the slaughter Digging ever deeper, but the only way out is To work your body 'til it gives Up to your knees in water Taking what is given so you're left in the shadows And they always said it was But the dream was never yours Hear the mighty voices sing Though many souls are broken We hold our families in our hearts and look to tomorrow But in the black of shattered hopes Angry words are spoken The mountains of my promised land Fade into the shadows And they always said it was, But the dream was never yours And they always said it was, But you know you'll find me Digging for coal all my life, I'm Digging for coal all my days Digging for coal all my life, I'm Digging for coal all my days Circles on a siren moon The pithead wheel announcing 11 yards, 1000 years, a host of men walking And all the dogs in Aber bark And all the mogs are singing All the cogs in bible black Slip into the shadows