[Verse I]
Born and raised within this town/
Death becomes the only way out//
Picking toward some dead-end routes/
Wear it on my face and my mouth//
Caught between the boom and the bust/
They collect the treasure we struck//
Never swung a hard day’s work/
Would leave you in the pits to burn//
Until the day we rise up!
[Bridge]
Just like my parents were/
One with the underground//
Smashing the Earth’s crust/
Inhaling coal dust//
[Chorus]
Cough up a lung where I’m from/
Ain’t nothing nice//
Cough up a lung where I’m from/
Ain’t nothing nice//
[Verse II]
Pushed us in the ghettos they built/
Moved into their houses on hills//
Drill about “drill, baby, drill!”/
We become the lands that they fill//
Leave us with the oil they spill/
Set fire to the oceans and mills//
Skies turn to the flavor of filth/
Communities get stuck with the bills//
Until the day we rise up!
[Bridge]
Long past the gold rush/
Nepotism holds clutch//
They love the photo-ops/
Avaricious at all costs//
[Hook]
Breath in, breath out
Breath in, breath out
[Chorus]
Cough up a lung where I’m from
Ain’t nothing nice
Cough up a lung where I’m from
Ain’t nothing nice
[Bridge]
Don’t/let them lie to you/hiding truth/
In the apple pies they supply for you//
Poisoning the mind/disguised in the red/white…
Don’t/let them lie to you/hiding truth/
In the apple pies they supply for you/
Poisoning the mind/disguised in the red/white/blue//
Wake the fuck up
Wake the fuck up
Now breath…
Woo!
[Hook]
Breath in, breath out
Breath in, breath out
Breath in, breath out
Breath in, breath out
[Chorus]
Cough up a lung where I’m from
Ain’t nothing nice
Cough up a lung where I’m from
Ain’t nothing nice
