The Price of the Promised Land

The sun don’t reach weary eyes
No the light don’t pierce
Down in the mines
40 years like 40 lives
Only whistles blowin’ to mark the time
Oh oh oh oh oh

Way way down we go
Gotta rip that soul outta the ground
While we walk that long wall
To the sound
Of hammer and steel
Steel on stone

Yeah we work those fingers to the bone
Oh oh oh oh oh
Way way down we go
Try to save my soul
Down deep where the river flows
Lord help me bear that load

Break my back for dark black gold
With every scar etched in my hands
That’s the price of the promised land
I’ll take my money
What’s left of my pride
And escape across that county line

Start somewhere new where I’m unknown
Yeah it’s time for me to just let go
Oh oh oh oh oh
Way outta town I go
Try to save my soul

Way up where the sun shine glows
Lord lead me on that road
Far away from the dark black gold
Take what’s left of this man
That’s the price of the promised land