The Builders And The Butchers - The Coal Mine Fall lyrics

There was a black heart beatin' in a cowboy's chest When the sun had cooked him through And the tracks were tears on a cigarette When the sky had opened up again Looked like midnight, it was noon. Our true love'll leave you on your knees in the rain. Our true love will leave you in the rain. Our true love'll leave you on your knees in the rain. Our true love will leave you in the rain. There was a black bird sittin' on top of the wire And the coal made the sky turn gray When the saints become the beggars And they live down among the fray And they dream of a golden day. There was a man on fire in the back of the church Who speaks in a sorry tone Not because his lover died But she left him all alone To sing with the holy stones. Our true love'll leave you on your knees in the rain. Our true love will leave you in the rain. Our true love'll leave you on your knees in the rain. Our true love will leave you in the rain. I been breakin' down these ol' bones I been waitin' for the fever to break Does your house look like a home When it's slidin' on into the lake? And when the darkness falls Oh, you'll be ridin' on a southbound train And cut your coal to burn And fill your heart with flame Our true love'll leave you on your knees in the rain. Our true love will leave you in the rain. Our true love'll leave you on your knees in the rain. Our true love will leave you in the rain. There was a black heart beatin' in a cowboy's chest If he even had a heart at all His mother died when he was born His daddy in a coal mine fall There's blood on the coal mine wall