The Gold

[00:01.14] Heartbreak in a relationship. Family struggles with parents. Both topics merge through the metaphor and/or recollection of mining work in Manchester Orchestra’s new single, from their upcoming LP “A Black Mile to the Surface”.This reaction applies to both literal sudden, health-related events, as well as the events and realizations that diagnose the health of a relationship.

[00:03.80] The lyrics are littered with references to working in mines, life surrounding the mines, and include the names of the upcoming album, and other tracks.

[00:15.75] Couldn't really love you any more

[00:18.94] You've become my ceiling

[00:21.86] I don't think I love you anymore

[00:25.05] That gold mine changed you

[00:27.71] You don't have to hold me anymore

[00:31.16] Our cave's collapsing

[00:34.08] I don't wanna be me anymore

[00:37.27] My old man told me

[00:40.19] "You don't open your eyes for a while

[00:42.85] You just breathe that moment down."

[00:47.89] Forty miles out of East Illinois

[00:50.82] For my old man's heart attack

[00:55.33] I believed you were crazy

[01:03.56] You believe that you love me

[01:28.00] I don't wanna bark here anymore

[01:31.19] Black hills, the colly

[01:33.85] Wasn't really dangerous for us

[01:36.77] We'd just catch you coughing

[01:39.96] What the hell are we gonna do?

[01:42.88] A black mile to the surface

[01:46.06] Well, I don't wanna be here anymore

[01:48.99] It all tastes like poison

[01:52.18] Can't open your eyes for a while

[01:54.83] You just breathe that moment down

[02:00.15] Forty hours out of Homestake

[02:02.27] And I'm trying to translate you again

[02:07.58] I believed you were crazy

[02:15.55] You believe that you love me

[02:23.52] You and me, we're a daydrink

[02:31.49] So lose your faith in me

[02:56.19] Can't open your eyes for a while

[02:58.85] You just beat that moment down

[03:04.16] You can't open your eyes for a while

[03:07.08] You just breathe

[03:11.86] I believed you were crazy

[03:20.10] You believe that you love me

[03:28.33] You and me, we're a daydrink

[03:36.03] So lose your faith in me

[03:44.27] Lose your faith in me

[03:51.44] Oh, lose your faith in me