Tom Flannery - Seems Like the Place to Be lyrics

Always said I was an honest man From breaker boy to a miners right hand Had some dreams like any man who breathes My light of day was the evening breeze Daddy fled the country that he called home Raped by a queen with a government loan Found work in Pennsylvania in the anthracite fields Seems my daddy got a raw raw deal There was a cave in heard that whistle blow Neighbors rush to tell her what she already knows They dumped his body on the front porch steps Pinned a company note to his bloody chest It said you ain't no miner you're just a spouse And you've been living in a company house You got a few days to gather your things Another family ready to move right in Now I'm working down in number nine There's whispering in the dark about walking the line My baby's at home waiting up for me This ain't where she wants me to be Well Lord you've just got to understand You face down the devil by being a man A bullet in the head and there's no surprise You plug a scoundrel right between the eyes Maybe heaven ain't the place for me Around here hell seems like the place to be Maybe heaven ain't the place for me Around here hell seems like the place to be