black lung disease

these are the nights where i can’t shake the weight from of my shoulders as i’m walking these dead end streets (dead eyes and dragging feet) of this miners town crows caw as the church bells sound and my bones are aching i feel them breaking cold hands just can’t stop shaking as i walk up to the leaving sign this is the last time you’ll see me love has left this place you won’t remember my face and i curse every streetlight every shadow hanging over me run away and find myself at the gates of leon’s old factory where my father used to work before they fired him the economy takes it’s toll old man here’s your check now raise up that chin and i’ve been thinking about leaving it’s break out or just give in it’s a town full of losers baby and me, i’m pulling out of here to win but these nights seem never ending and i don’t know if i can keep pretending sometimes i wish this river would burst its banks and wash me away wash me away wash me away from me the old shafts under clouded skieds 3am and i’m wondering why i’m stuck in here another year of holding back too many tears i’m digging deep in the pitch black dark breaking pieces of my black coal heart this miners town has got me down the walls cave in and i’m trapped underground