as coal Of all the colors I ever did see Red and black are the ones I dread For when a man spills blood on the coal They carry him down from the coal
engines, no Me train running low on soul coal Me train running low on soul coal Me train running low on soul coal Me train running low on soul coal
Look at me, I'm twenty three Beautiful, a sight to see tonight A little dress to draw the press And I'll be leaving all the rest behind Well, be pleased
You sit there on the couch Sipping your scotch and ice You turn the TV on And tune me out again So what would you say to me If you could talk to me You
Hold on, You said and I held on Lay down your sweet head and I laid it down I say, tell me all You have seen You gave of Your life to bring out my dreams
Free, free You thought you had me all tied up in a little knot You thought, I'd go on living just like you Till you ask me nicely to stop but surprise
Hush, I can hear you breathing Sweet the taste of your tender kiss I?m crazy, crazy tonight Baby, hold me tonight, capture my heart Hold me til morning
I lost it all You got it back Believed in me When I gave up on myself again A sudden rain revealed your face I knew right then No matter where I go I
I can see you standing in the pouring rain Waiting for changes to carry you away I can see the light fall from your eyes As we get lost in the tears of
the nice, naive and the beautiful If you?ve been there, you know If you?re still there, hang on We?re all dealt our lumps of coal What you do with it
Did you ever hear of Carrie? Mother of six, Angel to a thousand You may have never seen her But her actions spoke much louder She changed this place
I didn't call you 'Cause you would make a fuss So I wrote it in a song For you You're no longer Where I am inside We're too different Me and you You
I said somethings to you I think That I shouldn't have said I spoke out of turn and hurt you I've learned that it hurts me back Oh, what could be Worse
Awdling in the cellar Whining on the dungeon step Underground dweller Hammers at the coal-flap Catching the gnats Tearing off their opal wings Frightening
in the black coal You gotta look or you're never gonna know Diamond in the black coal Diamond in the black coal Diamond in the black coal You gotta
own understanding I acknowledge You in my ways and You direct me I'll be like a tree by the river When I put my trust in You I'll be like a coal in the
Deep in the mountain of Harlan County Employed by the Cumberland coal company The pay is short, the days are long But our labor union laws are coming
, all the angry prophets would know I rand into the wilderness, ran into the cold I screamed why, oh why did I ever run away? Don't disturb those fields of coal