Eden Prairie - Coal Mountain

      [Intro]
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[Verse 1]
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I went to the funeral of my old man today
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The urn that he came home in was a charcoal shade of grey
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He wanted his ashes spread across the prairies of the USA
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'Cause he loved John Wayne, the American dream but he
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never made it out that way
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Spent his whole damn life working for the man at the
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power plant driving coal
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He shoveled that shit from a mountain high and that
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mountain broke his soul


[Bridge]
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He was driving coal when I was born
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And he drove it until he was gone
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and the only time he hit me was when I asked him
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for a job - driving coal


[Chorus]
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And that coal mountain blocks the sun from my window
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Standing in the horizon so stern and strong
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The coal mountain, within five miles of it nothing grows
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I've lived in the shadow of that mountain all my life
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All my life


[Verse 2]
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Now the service it was simple just the kind he would have liked
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And Mama wept as she read those words about
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the dying of the light
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That same night the snow came down and for
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a moment it was all white
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But the ash in the air turns everything here
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grey like that mountainside


[Bridge]
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And when we got to who gets what
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It sure turned ugly enough
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One grey morning Mama left the house in her robe
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- and she never came home


[Chorus]
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And that coal mountain blocks the sun from my window
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Standing in the horizon so stern and strong
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The coal mountain, within five miles of it nothing grows
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I've lived in the shadow of that mountain all my life
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All my life


[Solo]
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[Verse 3]
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His ashes never made it to prairies of the USA
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Visas are a nightmare and getting harder every day


[Bridge]
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Instead I went in the dead of night
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Buried the urn in the mountain side
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Said: "Here it stops", poured some whiskey on top
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and left them both - I left them both behind


[Chorus]
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And the coal mountain blocks the moonlight from the road
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Disappearing in the horizon as I go
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The coal mountain, within five miles of it nothing grows
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I won't live in its shadow for a moment more
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I won't live in its shadow for a moment more