[Intro] [single palm-muted chug riff enters alone, slow and heavy, timber-creak sound layered underneath, drums lock in after four bars] [Verse 1] [chug riff continues under a doom-blues melodic vocal, restrained] Struck the vein at forty fathoms Struck it rich and struck it fast Timbers old, the walls were groanin' Should've known that gold's a curse cast Nineteen men went down that mornin' Only echoes came back up Now the shaft still hums at midnight Like it's never had enough [Pre-Chorus] [chug tightens, doom-blues melody continues] Can you hear the timbers cracklin' [growled] CAN YOU HEAR THE PICKAXE RING Ain't no rescue comin' for us Ain't no light to see a thing [Chorus] [full weight, chug riff heaviest here, gang vocals on last line] Down in Vulture's bones we're buried Down where the gold turned black as sin Every vein we ever opened Sealed us tighter in Down in Vulture's bones we're waitin' For a sun that won't come in [Verse 2] [same chug groove, doom-blues melody, weary delivery] Hear 'em swingin' still at sundown Hear the cart wheels on the track Gold don't care whose bones it's restin' on Gold don't ever give it back Tourists come to see the tailings Snap a photo, walk away Don't know we're still down there diggin' Diggin' for the light of day [Pre-Chorus] [chug tightens, doom-blues melody continues] Can you hear the timbers cracklin' [growled] CAN YOU HEAR THE PICKAXE RING Ain't no rescue comin' for us Ain't no light to see a thing [Chorus] [full weight, chug riff heaviest here, gang vocals on last line] Down in Vulture's bones we're buried Down where the gold turned black as sin Every vein we ever opened Sealed us tighter in Down in Vulture's bones we're waitin' For a sun that won't come in [Guitar Solo] [slide guitar, mournful and bluesy, riding over the same unbroken chug riff, no tempo change] [Bridge] [chug drops to half the density, sparse and heavy, vocals lower] Nineteen names on a plaque out yonder Nineteen men the paper mourned [growled] BUT WE AIN'T RESTIN' SIX FEET UNDER We're just under where we were born [chug returns to full density, still no tempo change] Some nights you can hear the timber Some nights you can hear the vein We're not ghosts of gold and glory We're just miners, still in chains [Chorus - Final] [heaviest version of the chug, doom-blues melody and growl trading lines, full weight] Down in Vulture's bones we're buried Down where the gold turned black as sin Every vein we ever opened Sealed us tighter in Down in Vulture's bones we're waitin' [growled] FOR A SUN THAT WON'T COME IN [Outro: Fade-out] [End]
