In Another Life lyrics

In another life, you and I

worked West Virginia coal mines,

side by side.

Collecting the black dust like sin,

the day the main shaft caved in.

I caught your eye,

as the lantern light guttered out.

And the afterdamp swallowed us slowly.

I gripped your hand,

and caught a glance

of the next time 'round.

In another life, you and I,

were Red Guards in training,

side by side.

We marched on Tiananmen,

turned our own parents in for hoarding rice.

And in the Great Leap, forward

we crawled on our bellies and died.

And a blood orange sky, gave a cry

of next time 'round

And in another life,

I was married at thirteen,

You were killed at twenty-one,

on a minor battlefield.

I was buried beside

my second stillborn child.

My last thought it seemed,

a fever dream.

Now we sink into a summer afternoon.

Central Park in June.

Marveling at the bounty our days contain.

And we feel it like the shiver of a passing train.

That other life, deep underground,

You and I, side by side.

We are the next time 'round

• Artist:Vienna Teng
• Album:Inland Territory