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Blue Mountain Haze

from The Longwall by Brian Granse

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Blue Mountain Haze explores the coal miner's plight, and the political exploitation of blue collar voters by American politicians, acknowledging a passing era and hardship that is inevitable.

lyrics

Verse
The sun’s coming up over the ridge.
Blue Mountain haze burning thin.
There's a tragedy on the horizon.
And that's how it's always been.

You sat there watching the dust,
Just cover your town.
Now nothing shines and the walls are peeling thin.
A union sticker fades upon an empty tin.
Gone the black streaks under your eyes,
Still a scar across your chin.

Your father left each night for the winding hills,
Sports radio hummin’ beneath the road.
The owl shift turns the night,
Into someone else's gold.
Burned for steel at the end of a rail,
In some town you’ll never know.

Chorus
Scraping the long wall,
No sun upon your back.
Kerosene life lost in a sea of black.
You can push hard,
When you're bound to protect.
When everything’s gone you let it all to heck.

Verse
The campaign signs have you looking for ghosts.
In four more years they’ll come ‘round again.
Knockin’ on plywood doors in a town on government checks.
Lining the sides of the highway,
With letters and lies in the ditch.

Ghost and myth hang all around us.
We lean to faith in the days we limp.
A preacher knows to speak,
To the empty eye in the room.
A desperate heart will fall for you,
Don't matter if you're true.

Chorus
The writing was on the long wall,
Before the company’s letterhead.
A midnight drive and then you never went back.
There ain’t no God, no love, no president,
To give you any more but heartbreak,
To the still of your town’s breath.

Verse
The sun’s going down over the ridge.
Blue Mountain haze closing in.
There’s a tragedy on the horizon,
Comin’ round again.

credits

from The Longwall, track released September 16, 2022
Kyleen King on violin
All other instruments are Brian Granse (acoustic guitar, vocals, electric guitar, bass guitar).
Mixed by Brian Granse
Mastered by Ryan Foster at Foster Mastering in Portland, Oregon

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Brian Granse Portland, Oregon

Brian Granse is a singer and songwriter in Portland, Oregon. He released his first EP,” 0.5,” in 2001, and then Earthrise (2004) and American Nobody (2006). After touring and piecing together construction jobs, Granse performed full-time from 2007- 2010. Granse now teaches beat production, audio engineering, and Social Studies at an alternative high school, producing Hip-Hop with Portland youth. ... more

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