Look me in the eye when you're talkin' to me
I 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 nothin' 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
Wakin' up in the middle of the night alone
It's about muscle
It's about bone
It's about a river runnin' thicker than water
And it's about blood
Once upon a time in America
Workin' man knew where he stood
Nowadays just gettin' 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 nothin' 'bout cost
It's about fathers
It's about sons
It's about lovers
Wakin' up in the middle of the night alone
It's about muscle
It's about bone
It's about a river runnin' 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 howlin' 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
Wakin' up in the middle of the night alone
It's about muscle
It's about bone
It's about a river runnin' thicker than water
And it's about blood
It's about Carl Acord, Jason Atkins, Christopher Bell, Gregory Steven Brock, Kenneth Alan Chapman, Robert E. Clark, Charles Timothy Davis, Corey Davis, Michael Lee Elswick, William Il [Ildon] 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, Gary Quarles, Grover Dale Skeens, Benny Willingham, Ricky Workman
It's about blood
I 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 nothin' 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
Wakin' up in the middle of the night alone
It's about muscle
It's about bone
It's about a river runnin' thicker than water
And it's about blood
Once upon a time in America
Workin' man knew where he stood
Nowadays just gettin' 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 nothin' 'bout cost
It's about fathers
It's about sons
It's about lovers
Wakin' up in the middle of the night alone
It's about muscle
It's about bone
It's about a river runnin' 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 howlin' 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
Wakin' up in the middle of the night alone
It's about muscle
It's about bone
It's about a river runnin' thicker than water
And it's about blood
It's about Carl Acord, Jason Atkins, Christopher Bell, Gregory Steven Brock, Kenneth Alan Chapman, Robert E. Clark, Charles Timothy Davis, Corey Davis, Michael Lee Elswick, William Il [Ildon] 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, Gary Quarles, Grover Dale Skeens, Benny Willingham, Ricky Workman
It's about blood
Contributed by Bernart Bartleby - 2020/6/22 - 19:06
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Nell'album “Ghosts of West Virginia", con la band The Dukes
Testo da Genius
Tutte le canzoni dell'album furono originariamente composte per uno spettacolo teatrale intitolato "Coal Country" ed incentrato sulla vita dei minatori del carbone in West Virginia ed, in particolare, sulla tragedia dell'Upper Big Branch Mine di Raleigh dove, il 5 aprile 2010, una trentina di minatori rimase intrappolata da un'esplosione a 300 metri di profondità. Morirono quasi tutti, 29 su 31. L'inchiesta successiva appurò che la compagnia proprietaria, la Massey Energy, aveva eluso le più elementari regole di sicurezza. L'ammontare dei risarcimenti per il disastro superò i 200 milioni di dollari.
Don Blankenship, amministratore delegato della compagnia al momento del disastro, venne condannato per gravi omissioni nella sicurezza dell'impianto. Si fece un solo anno di galera. Oggi Blankenship è in politica per il Constitution Party, formazione di estrema destra, e si autodefinisce "più trumpiano di Trump". Infatti si è pure candidato per le prossime elezioni presidenziali... Quando si dice, "la faccia come il culo"...
Steve Earle termina la canzone con i nomi delle vittime del disastro di Upper Big Branch.