Spoken IntroMy Granddad Never Called Himself A Hero.He Was Just Another Miner...Working Ten-Hour Shifts Where The Sun Never Reached.I Walked These Tunnels Hoping I'd Understand His Life.I Didn't.Because You Can't Understand A Lifetime...Just By Walking Through The Darkness.You Have To Remember The Men...Who Stayed There."SoloVerse 1Before The Break Of Morning,Before The Rooster Cried,My Granddad Walked That Gravel RoadWith His Dinner By His Side.Ten Long Hours Underground,Where The Sun Would Never Shine,Swinging Steel Through Walls Of Coal,Leaving Daylight Far Behind.Pre-ChorusForty Minutes Of Clean Air...Then You Breathed The Dust.You Learned Real QuickTo Pray And Trust.ChorusThey Kept The Fires Burning,While They Burned Their Lives Away.They Dug The Coal Beneath Our Feet,So We Could Face Another Day.They Gave Their Backs,They Gave Their Years.Some Came Home...Some Disappeared.No Statues Stand To Honor Them,No Headlines Spoke Their Names.But Every Fire That's Burning Still...Remembers Why They Came.SoloVerse 2The Tunnels Shook,The Roof Would Groan.Every Man KnewHe Might Not Make It Home.Heavy Machines,Broken Stone.One Wrong Step...Another Soul Was Gone.Masks Ran OutIn Forty Minutes Flat.So They Chewed TobaccoJust To Fight It Back.Keeping Their Mouths From Drying Out,Holding Courage Near.Every Shift Beneath That MountainCould Be Their Last Down Here.BridgeMy Granddad LivedLong Beyond Those Mines.Never Carried Bitterness.Only Memories.Sometimes He'd Stop,Bow His Head.Speaking SoftlyOf The Friends He'd Lost Instead.I Walked Those TunnelsYears Too Late.Trying To CarryJust A Little Of His Weight.I Left With Coal DustOn My Boots...And A HeartFull Of Respect.Final ChorusThey Kept The Fires Burning,While They Burned Their Lives Away.They Dug The Coal Beneath Our Feet,So We Could Face Another Day.Now Every Train,Every Flame,Every WinterSpeaks Their Names.Some Men Chase Fortune.Some Men Chase Fame.Mine Went Underground...So The Whole World Stayed The Same.OutroForty Minutes Of Clean Air...A Lifetime Full Of Pride.He Never Asked For Glory.He Just Did What Was Right.And Every TimeI Hear A Whistle Blow...I Think About The MenWho Never Made It Home.
