Alaska

Everybody doubled up like moles

All the birds sat right down on the ground

And the sun was shining down on everybody's head but mine

Lord, I bet that sun is just shinin' down

Just like clockwork, I wash my face on Sundays

And my eyes are bigger than hubcaps in my face

But the skulls and the shinbones of folks I never seen before

is the only thing that's left down in this place Oh Lord, the sun went down and it never came up again

I feel like this coalmine's up in Alaska

In the morning nothing much was left

Just the hollow bones of all them crows

But the mineshaft shut it's fist and then the blue sky blinked out

And all my blood gets filtered throught that coal

Dorris, I swear I love you but the Earth just opened and swallowed my up

I'm tappin' on a rusted pipe all day

And the blood that rusted up my heart is black as any river water

I wonder if you can hear anything I say

Oh, but the rust flows through my veins

And it's more thatn coal that left this stain

And my eyes ar open but I can't see a thing

And the air I'm breathin' is as thin as a string

Oh Lord, the sun went down and it never came up again

I feel like this coalmine's up in Alaska