"It's About Blood" lyrics - STEVE EARLE

Look me in the eye when you're talkin' to me
I wanna see in your soul when you lie
Don't try and tell me that you couldn't foresee
What everybody reckoned was a matter of time
Goddamn right I'm emotional
I ain't nothin' but a man
Hell yes, this is personal
Before we leave here you're gonna understand

[Chorus:]
It's about fathers
It's about sons
It's about lovers
Wakin' up in the middle of the night alone
It's about muscle
It's about bone
It's about a river runnin' thicker than water
And it's about blood

Once upon a time in America
Workin' man knew where he stood
Nowadays just gettin' by is a miracle
Probably couldn't give it up if I could
Don't wanna hear about the state of the economy
Fiscal reality, profit and loss
None of that matters once you're underground anyway
Damn sure can't tell me nothin' 'bout cost

[Chorus:]
It's about fathers
It's about sons
It's about lovers
Wakin' up in the middle of the night alone
It's about muscle
It's about bone
It's about a river runnin' thicker than water
And it's about blood

[Instrumental Verse]

Tell yourself it was an accident
Isolated incident, part of the job
Yeah, well tell that to the families
Kids without daddies
Tell it to God
Is that the wind you hear howlin' through the holler?
Or the ghost of a widow that cries?
For every man that died for a coal company dollar
A lung full of dust and a heart full of lies

[Chorus:]
It's about fathers
It's about sons
It's about lovers
Wakin' up in the middle of the night alone
It's about muscle
It's about bone
It's about a river runnin' thicker than water
And it's about blood

[Outro:]
It's about Carl Acord, Jason Atkins, Christopher Bell, Gregory Steven Brock, Kenneth Alan Chapman, Robert E. Clark, Charles Timothy Davis, Corey Davis, Michael Lee Elswick, William Il [Ildon] Griffith, Steven Harrah, Edward Dean Jones, Richard K. Lane, William Roosevelt Lynch, Nicholas Darrell McCroskey

Joe Marcum, Ronald Lee Maynor, James E. Mooney, Adam Keith Morgan, Rex L. Mullins, Joshua S. Napper, Howard D. Payne, Dillard Earl Persinger, Joel R. Price, Deward Scott, Gary Quarles, Grover Dale Skeens, Benny Willingham, Ricky Workman

It's about blood