Teeth of the Fae - Levant Mine

Creaking man engine
Endless steps of decay
Pocket the profits
Demise, pave the way
Groans to be ignored
Regulations written in blood
The tumbling floor
The crush or the flood

Hurtling wood, cascade of pine
Crushing death, inverse divine
Tones, dreaded splinters
Mangled corpses, whimpers
Fathers, brothers, sons
Callously ripped, away
The body count stays
Disregarded wayward sway

Hauled from the depths
Rescue amidst the rubble
Back into the abyss
Unknown heroes plunge
Godly and simple men
Duty above comfort
What stirs such sacrifice?
But the spirit indwelling

Solemn bells ring
In a humble church
Service of sorrow
Souls ascension
Broken prayers
Lowly and beautiful
They are certainly heard
Rising like incense

Oh Mother Mary
Our lady of sorrows
Intercede, Intercede
For these poor souls
Hasten through the fire
The blessing of purgation

Justice be done
Fickle empires fall
You can't take with you
Your hoards of vain metal

Breaking the sacred heart
Of mercy poured out
Wrath and love together
Spilled into the world
Who shall weep?
And who shall rejoice?
On that great terrible day
When birth pangs cease

Remember in the night
Those who were torn
Those who so loved
He will not forget them

Still across the earth
Industries thrive
Milling human life
Disgracing the sacred

Love for the least
Is the only narrow path
To the endless fountain
Pouring from your side
The first are cast down
The mighty to the dregs
The last are forever exalted
The humble to the heights