I Ain’t Dead—I Just Work This Way

This song is about American coal miners—the men and families who built entire regions underground.

It opens in the dark before dawn, where work starts tired and never really ends.

Every verse walks deeper into the mine: rusted tools, unpaid risks, lungs filled with

dust, faith tested by survival. The chorus is a stomp,

not a plea—because this isn’t about quitting. It’s about endurance. Generations working

the same tunnels. Forgotten towns. Broken bodies that still stand. “I ain’t dead—I

just work this way.”