[Verse 1: Post-hardcore male lead, clean and tense over driving drums] Six hundred feet down where the city drinks Wet rock and a drill and the air that stinks East crew, mine, we been at it six years West crew coming with their pride and their beers Vinnie on their side, he's the one I hate Busted my nose at the bar at eight Every shift change they post the score West crew ahead by eleven feet more We rig the lift so it stalls at the top They fill our boots with the grout from the slop [Pre-Chorus: Post-hardcore male lead, building, guitars swelling] Surveyor says forty, then he says ten Hands on the drill and we go again [Chorus: Post-hardcore male lead, belted raw, full band crashing] Meet me in the middle, I'll meet you in the rock Six years of hate on a six-mile clock Dig from your side and I'll dig from mine Meet me in the middle, meet me on the line [Verse 2: Post-hardcore male lead, heavier, raw edge] Mud on my helmet like a second skin Lost two brothers to the water getting in Lost a marriage to the night shift bell Lost a finger to the muck and the hell Vinnie lost his father to the same old stone Never said sorry, never called his home Funny how you hate the man who digs like you Funny how he bleeds like you bleed too Forty years from now when the faucet runs Nobody's gonna know about the east crew's sons [Pre-Chorus: Post-hardcore male lead, building, guitars swelling] Surveyor says forty, then he says ten Hands on the drill and we go again [Chorus: Post-hardcore male lead, belted raw, full band crashing] Meet me in the middle, I'll meet you in the rock Six years of hate on a six-mile clock Dig from your side and I'll dig from mine Meet me in the middle, meet me on the line [Bridge: Post-hardcore male lead, quiet then climbing, drums building] Drill goes quiet and the rock goes thin Then a crack of light where the west comes in Less than an inch and the two holes kiss Vinnie's hand through the rock, I been waiting for this [Chorus: Post-hardcore male lead, octave leap, a full octave up and held over the whole band] Meet me in the middle, I'll meet you in the rock Six years of hate on a six-mile clock Dig from your side and I'll dig from mine Meet me in the middle, meet me on the line [Outro: Post-hardcore male lead, raw] Less than an inch Water's coming home [End]
