Your Dirty Black Coal

Your Dirty Black Coal

You stand there so smug

In your suit and your smirk

To proclaim with a shrug

That nothing will work

But to build a great pyre

From all that remains

And set it on fire

To bigger your gains

But we’re done with your pride

We’re done with your greed

We know that you lied

We can’t live by your creed

We’ve heard the people

Who live by the hole

That you had to dig

For your dirty black coal

Like Nero you play

While the world’s all ablaze

And we know who'll pay

For all that you raze

Those children unborn

Whose futures you burn

Will repay your scorn

When they get their turn

They’ll be done with your pride

They’ll be done with your greed

They’ll know that you lied

They won’t live by your creed

When the time comes to pay

The fare for your soul

You’ll have nothing to show

But your dirty black coal

And the truth’s now so clear

It shines like the sun

It’s too stark to deny

And you’ve no place to run

For your moment has gone

And you’ve had your day

And the winds that now blow

Will blast you away

We’re done with your pride

We’re done with your greed

We know that you lied

We can’t live by your creed

And I hope that Death

Just swallows you whole

And takes you straight down below

With your dirty black coal

Then maybe Satan himself

Will take on your role

And fuel the fires of Hell

With your dirty black coal

And I hope he burns you

For the futures you stole

When you sold your soul

For your dirty black coal

[words by John Sutton, 1 November, 2018, any use subject to an Attribution+ShareAlike (BY-SA) licence]