Coal Town

Daddy wasn't the first, but he might be the last
 In a long line of men, covered in black soot and ash
 Ain't much work around here since they closed down the mines
 We're either working in the prisons or we're logging them pines
 We're just taking what we're given, scraping out a living
 Getting by is all we've ever known
 Our whole world stopped turning when them headlamps quit burning
 Now we're picking up the peices off
 the ground, in what's left of a coal town
 No one had a choice when the jobs up and left
 It was a man in a suit, who thought he knew best
 But he never saw what it was before or what it's now become
 And there ain't no turning back, cause what's done is done
 We're just taking what we're given, scraping out a living
 Getting by is all we've ever known
 Our whole world stopped turning when them headlamps quit burning
 Now we're picking up the peices off
 the ground, in what's left of a coal town
 In what's left of a coal town
 We're just taking what we're given, scraping out a living
 Getting by is all we've ever known
 Our whole world stopped turning when them headlamps quit burning
 Now we're picking up the peices off the ground
 Now we're picking up the peices of the ground
 In what's left of a coal town
 In what's left of a coal town
 And well daddy wasn't the first, but he might be the last