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Shoveling Coal | West Virginia

from A Song For Every State by Travis Ehrenstrom

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Send a warm body down to the well,
Oh whistling darling.
Send a warm body down to the well,
Oh we’re shoveling coal.
Oh we’re shoveling coal.

The working fire will break the bones
Of every hand to touch the ground that you worshipped on.

Graze the lies across the fog, the one’s you’re not,
And lead me beside your bed.

Praise the day the revelations fade,
And energy is just getting high on land.

Deeper down we find it still,
Until then, it never ends,

Send a warm body down to the well,
Oh whistling darling.
Send a warm body down to the well,
Oh we’re shoveling coal.
Oh we’re shoveling coal.

Oh my lord,
Lost in the dark,
Oh whistling darling.
Oh my lord,
Lost in the light,
Oh whistle and moan.

In the pit the company kept ,
Is darker than the dreams you hid.

But here we are a modern age,
And everything takes electric shape.

The Razor wire, a faint desire,
Until then, it never ends.

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from A Song For Every State, released June 25, 2019

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