The Miner’s Son
Too many days down dark holes
Waiting for the homecoming.
We keep going to school and going to work, and coming home to dinner on the table and then a bedtime story
He’d rise up like a god
Exuding the will to push me to stand
I know he’s in there for me, he says.
I’ll just hold on another day .
In calling
Break through the clouds
A brilliant spotlight
On the stage
Just a word to set me up
Or a word to take me down
When my wings are melting
Before I come on down
Just hold on, miner.
Someone is coming.
Hold on hold on and remember
All of reasons
The reasons you went down there
The reasons you risked
The reasons you sacrificed
The reasons the reason you went underground
Down deeper
The boy’s grown up now and ain’t doing half bad.
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