Anthracite Video (MV)

When you left your mama down in east Kentucky
And took off for that Allegheny ridge
You swore you wouldn't marry a coal miner
Who'd die of blackened lung just like your daddy did

Got a wedding ring from that young Pittsburgh doctor
And the sparkle is was sharper than a knife
But sharper was the ring of the phone call
That introduced you to his jealous wife

Now your heart is rocky, hard to mine
Built on dreams that so long ago died
But this pressure is building a diamond inside
Now your heart is anthracite

Now the light behind your eyes has turned to darkness
Blacker than the Pennsylvania coal
Gather up the dreams that you once buried
And bury them somewhere deep in your soul

Where the fires of affliction keep on burning
They'll melt you but they never will consume
The love that you have hidden in the caverns
But refine it till it shimmers like the moon

Now your heart is rocky, hard to mine
Built on dreams that so long ago died
But this pressure is building a diamond inside
Now your heart is anthracite

My hands are caked with coal
My love is crystalline
Trust a miner's soul
Crack open that seam

I've dug for many treasures in these mountains
Though silver and gold I have not found
But I know the worth of coal and I can see it in your soul
There's a treasure here beneath your stony ground

Oh I've held the flaming sapphires out of Africa
And Arkansas has craters filled with jewels
But I'll gladly stake my claim in Pennsylvania
If it takes a lifetime to un-bury you

Now your heart is rocky, hard to mine
Built on dreams that so long ago died
But this pressure is building a diamond inside
Now your heart is anthracite
Love, your heart is anthracite