Lyrics

You thought them miners' songs was yesterday’s haunt,
But complicity’s alive in what you want.
Dust-covered hollers ain’t yet behind,
These shaft-song whispers sharper-defined.

See coal turned electric, hellfire cools green,
Same crooked preachers, new sermon machine.
Children swing pickaxe, somewhere unseen—
Blood earned comfort fuels bright-eyed dream.

No wash of nostalgia or sepia words,
Ghost-voices tonight still sharply heard.
Timelines twisted, old songs played again—
New ropes knotted from fibers of sin.

Y'all heard swamp preachin', fire an’ smoke the brimstone:
Figured safely distant, comfortably alone.
But judgment now closer, pulse fully awake—
Irony bitter new pledges we make.

These sermons ain’t buried, ain’t locked away
Not some bygone sorrow for yesterday.
Hypnotized blind, our own role replayed,
Green gospel truths built on promises betrayed.

Hear living ghosts whisper through each circuit line,
Lament again spoken—new complicity-shrine.
Top soil salvation, deeper down dirt graves,
Below every footprint, the sin we never waived.

Hold your phones warm, screens humming their lure—
You miners yourselves, and your shaft-mouth secure.
Every comfort and flicker an unspoken price,
We echo their choice, saying "Least this feels nice."

Not the olden days gospel, no distant curse heard,
It’s modern, to-day—burdened by every new word.
Faces changed quiet, but profit unchanged,
Still trading tomorrow for today's brief exchange.

Hymns not fading, mines deeper dug here—
The past ain’t a stranger, reflection is clear.
From swamps to coal hollers, new songs to rehearse,
You ain’t makin' progress—just rewriting that verse.

This ghosts’ sermon here whispers bleak an’ precise—
History ain't sleeping, y’all tempt fate "the price."
Ain’t praying bout others, fear chilling and stark:
This darkness your mirror, clear-defined, sharp.

We kneel new coal-shafts, we swing new picks raw—
These old truths whispers, still biting ya'll flaw.
Not yesterday’s sinners, no sir, not a-side—
It’s your shadow’s gospel you can't run from nor hide.