Coal of the Iron Mist

Описание: LYRICS

There is a hollow where the sunlight never reaches
Where the creek bed runs with silver and the limestone bleaches
I was born beneath the shadow of the ridge line steep
Where the secrets of the pines are the only ones we keep
My grandad worked the seam until his lungs were made of dust
Leaving nothing but a hammer and a heart consumed by rust
Now the morning fog is rolling like a ghost across the trail
While the whistle of the midnight train begins its lonely wail

Oh, the blue ridge is bleeding in the autumn light
And the stars are hanging heavy in the Appalachian night
It’s a long way down to the valley floor below
Where the ancient rivers whisper things that only mountains know
Yeah, the mountains always know

I walked the rocky switchbacks where the laurel thickets grow
Past the cabins standing empty in a silent, crooked row
You can hear the fiddle crying from a porch of rotting wood
Asking if we ever left this ground the way we know we should
There’s a fever in the timber and a hunger in the stone
That can make a man feel crowded when he’s standing all alone
Every stone is like a story that was written in the clay
Of the ones who stayed for lifetimes and the ones who ran away

Oh, the blue ridge is bleeding in the autumn light
And the stars are hanging heavy in the Appalachian night
It’s a long way down to the valley floor below
Where the ancient rivers whisper things that only mountains know
Yeah, the mountains always know

They took the timber and they took the coal
But they couldn’t find the rhythm of the mountain’s soul
It’s in the thunder when the summer clouds turn black and deep
It’s in the promise that the rhododendron blossoms keep

Oh, the blue ridge is bleeding in the autumn light
And the stars are hanging heavy in the Appalachian night
It’s a long way down to the valley floor below
Where the ancient rivers whisper things that only mountains know
Yeah, the mountains always knowSleep now in the hollow
Where the mountain laurel grows
What the river takes away
Only the mountain knows
Only the mountain knows