This ancient world never gives up it’s own
Yesterday’s beauty recorded in stone
Those first new gardens captured and press
Now the miner calls it the flowers of darkness
 
They shut down the mine new ways are coming here
For the good of all the old will disappear
But beneath these green hills within the earth’s crust
Generations of labor and the flowers of darkness
         
Through the blackest of black there are lights up ahead
Give these men their praise among the living and dead
The work goes on forever, the cursed and the blessed
As they find a safe passage among the flowers of darkness

They say jobs for the future plans to forge ahead
Accept your fate there’s a better way instead
But you powered a nation and gave it your best
Now they’ll cover your grave with the flowers of darkness

Through the blackest of black there are lights up ahead
Give these men their praise among the living and dead
The work goes on forever, the cursed and the blessed
As they find a safe passage among the flowers of darkness
 
Into the darkness someday you will need to return
But your soul shall rise into the light of your new home
No more shifts to pull no more grasping for breath
And your body shall rest among the flowers of darkness
You were the chosen the flowers of darkness

ASCP Hollowcreek Music 2019

Clinton Collins