Erika Lundahl - Coaltown Lyrics

You took me driving
Through snowy hillsides
On the backroads to your hometown
You can count on your ten fingers
The folks you know who linger here still
Like you did for half of your life
Your life in an old coal town

Your father worked, he worked those machines
Searching the slopes of a mountain
For a coal soaked seam
And here's where you built a fort
Up in the trees, a secret world
Where you had room to dream
Of a life that comes after, a life that comes after
Life in an old coal town

Here's where you smoked your first cigarette
Where the windows are brokedn now
There are barn owls in the rafters
There are beaver dams and black bears here
A life that comes after
A life that comes after, life in an old coal town
In an old coal town
In an old coal town
In an old coal town

And I think I wanted to kiss you right then and there
The now fell so gentle in your hair
But you said we ought to go
This place is full of ghosts
I've let go of it already
I left home when I was 17
Again when I was 18 and I'm gone again on saturday
I'm anxious for the next chapter
For the life that comes after
Life in an old coal town
In an old coal town