Black Smoke Risin' Lyrics

Well I was born with plastic bloodstreams

Gasoline burns in my soul

And just like the men before me

I was raised to smolder coal

Sacrifice to push a piston

Sacrifice to turn a wheel

You were born with the disaster

The oceans covers in oil spills

Black smoke rising to the sky

Let the black smoke fill your lungs

And cloud your eyes

While I'm driving down the highway

Looking straight past every sign

How the roads carve out the mountains

And how the tracks go on for miles

Driving through midwestern mire

Black smoke bellows from factory stoves

There's no hope for tomorrow

And there's no place to call my home

Black smoke rising to the sky

Let the black smoke fill your lungs

And cloud your eyes

When the world has turned to kill you

And then the lands all burnt to ash

When the sky rains only fire

And your days have come to pass

Well your children won't remember

The way it used to be

When we watched the flowers grow

When we lived in harmony

Black smoke rising to the sky

Let the black smoke fill you lungs and cloud your eyes