Coal
David Brown
From the top of the mountain everything
looks clear
You can see where you’re headed and it’s downhill
from here
Life was fast, fresh and frothy as a
mountain stream
And you rode that white water like a cowboy rides a wild
steed
Like Roy Rodgers and Trigger
We were as tight as glue
You pulled my trigger and I rodgered you
Now we’re standing,
staring at a stinking, stagnant pool
Stuck as a lame and lovelorn, stubborn mule
In this dank and dingy, dead-end of decay
And it’s got us both of us wondering how we ever got
this way
Meanwhile, the raging river went from
wild to wide
We started looking into the distance instead of into each
other’s
eyes
Spent like the salmon we had both seen upstream
Stranded between the source and the sea
You still look the
same but looks just ain’t enough
It’s like when Trigger died and Roy had him stuffed
Now
we’re standing, staring at a stinking stagnant pool
Stuck as a lame and lovelorn, stubborn mule
In this dank and dingy, dead-end of decay
And it’s
got me wondering how we ever got this way
And oh the slow decompose into coal
That lies inert beneath the earth
‘Til in time it’s mined and lights up other lives |
