In the Blood Lyrics

There in the Kanawha Valley

There in the phosphorus breeze

There in the baptismal water

There in the cure, there in disease

I can't hide and I can't run

I can't lie, it always was

In the blood

There in the cable news crawling

In Murdoch and Dow

In Article one, Section two

In wrongs we can't write out (now)

I can't hide and I can't run

I can't lie, it always was

In the blood

There like a cancer dividing

Like original sin

In the shadow of time, the thought and the crime

That follows you home again and again and…

I can't hide and I can't run

I can't fight, I ain't enough

It's a flame on fire, it's rain on flood

I can't hide, it always was

In the blood

And I'll wait til your wake in the morning

Biting my cheek in the pew

I'll pray to the God you believed in

It's dying with you

It's dying with you