The Coal Mine Fall

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