It's About Blood

(album: Ghosts Of West Virginia - 2020)

Look me in the eye when you're talking to me
Wanna see in your soul when you lie
Don't try and tell me that you couldn't foresee
What everybody reckoned was a matter of time
Goddamn right, I'm emotional
I ain't nothing but a man
Hell yes, this is personal
Before we leave here you're gonna understand

It's about fathers
It's about sons
It's about lovers waking up
In the middle of the night, alone
It's about muscle
It's about bone
It's about a river running thicker than water
And it's about blood

Once upon a time in America
Working man knew where he stood
Nowadays just getting by is a miracle
Probably couldn't give it up if I could
Don't wanna hear about the state of the economy
Fiscal reality, profit and loss
None of that matters once you're underground anyway
Damn sure can't tell me nothing 'bout cost

It's about fathers
It's about sons
It's about lovers waking up
In the middle of the night, alone
It's about muscle
It's about bone
It's about a river running thicker than water
And it's about blood

Tell yourself it was an accident
Isolated incident, part of the job
Yeah? Well tell that to the families
Kids without daddies, tell it to God
Is that the wind you hear howling through the holler
Or the ghost of a widow that cries?
For every man that died for a coal company dollar
A lung full of dust and a heart full of lies

It's about fathers
It's about sons
It's about lovers waking up
In the middle of the night, alone
It's about muscle
It's about bone
It's about a river running thicker than water
And it's about blood

It's about Carl Acord, Jason Atkins, Christopher Bell, Gregory Steven Brock, Kenneth Allan Chapman, Robert E. Clark, Charles Timothy Davis, Cory Davis, Michael Lee Elswick, William Il Griffith, Steven Harrah, Edward Dean Jones, Richard K. Lane, William Roosevelt Lynch, Nicholas Darrell McCroskey
Joe Marcum, Ronald Lee Maynor, James E. Mooney, Adam Keith Morgan, Rex L. Mullins, Joshua S. Napper, Howard D. Payne, Dillard Earl Persinger, Joel R. Price, Deward Scott, and... Gary Quarles, Grover Dale Skeens, Benny Willingham, Ricky Workman

It's about blood