Is it wrong to feel emotionally attached to a fossil fuel when its presence kinda brought about the rise and fall of your hometown?
Maybe one day
the floods will wash away
this secondhand sin
we find ourselves buried in.
We’ll climb our way out
of the deep-seated doubt
they sow and embed
‘cause we’re “just not well-read.”
We’ll rise without stops
‘till our heads meet mountaintops
where barons live in grandeur
‘cause they screw over the poor.
We’ll all take lighters
to those greedy outsiders.
Watch them burn like the coal
they traded for soul.
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This is like a really bitter Bob Dylan song, which I mean as a high compliment.
Lot of good lines. Love second-hand sin we find ourselves buried in
I think about this every time I see the license plates – you know the ones I mean – which is daily – so all the time.
I agree with Kevin – wonderful protest song!
The landing is perfect.
Wow…wow…wow: “the floods will wash away/this secondhand sin/we find ourselves buried in.