swallowed up no where to turn seems like things have been that way since i was born just another man singing black diamond blues again like my father and his father before him poison winds blowing down mine one thunders rolling in now thirteen gone junior says a sinner s prayer our souls to keep got a picture in my pocket of my baby and me standing in the sun on a winters day seems so damn far away and i hear the church bells are ringing singing glory to god alone twelve men found broken but breathing i see a light come to carry me on carry me past these coalfields through the mountains and rolling hills through the town where i was born i see a light come to carry me on