Shaky Ground Lyrics

In memory of a miner

Who dragged himself to work

And worked himself to death, working for someone else

We follow each other around on shaky ground

His life had become to him

Worthless in many ways

An expired product off the shelf, working for someone else

We follow each other around on shaky ground

The nature of his work

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Twenty hours a day, little time he had for others

We follow each other around on shaky ground

Never got to see the world

He got a funeral and this miner's song

There is no right or wrong

Now it's down to the wire

Facing six feet under

Can only wonder and stare

His name was a number