The Coal Mine Fall Lyrics - The Builders And The Butchers - The Builders And The Butchers

There was a black heart beatin' in a cowboy's chest 

When the sun had cooked him through 

And the tracks were tears on a cigarette 

When the sky had opened up again 

Looked like midnight, it was noon. 

Our true love'll leave you on your knees in the rain. 

Our true love will leave you in the rain. 

Our true love'll leave you on your knees in the rain. 

Our true love will leave you in the rain. 

There was a black bird sittin' on top of the wire 

And the coal made the sky turn gray 

When the saints become the beggars 

And they live down among the fray 

And they dream of a golden day. 

There was a man on fire in the back of the church 

Who speaks in a sorry tone 

Not because his lover died 

But she left him all alone 

To sing with the holy stones. 

Our true love'll leave you on your knees in the rain. 

Our true love will leave you in the rain. 

Our true love'll leave you on your knees in the rain. 

Our true love will leave you in the rain. 

I been breakin' down these ol' bones 

I been waitin' for the fever to break 

Does your house look like a home 

When it's slidin' on into the lake? 

And when the darkness falls 

Oh, you'll be ridin' on a southbound train 

And cut your coal to burn 

And fill your heart with flame 

Our true love'll leave you on your knees in the rain. 

Our true love will leave you in the rain. 

Our true love'll leave you on your knees in the rain. 

Our true love will leave you in the rain. 

There was a black heart beatin' in a cowboy's chest 

If he even had a heart at all 

His mother died when he was born 

His daddy in a coal mine fall 

There's blood on the coal mine wall