Abernant 1984/5 - Mekons

The wind and the rain beat on his fair head

As he stood in the darkness wishing he was dead

Only seventeen when he went down the mine

And it’s a year that he’s been out on the line

Bitter tears rolled down his cheek

He couldn’t stand to hear talk of defeat

Despair in a terraced house and ghosts from the past

The living death they’d fought is here at last

The weeds choke and the rust corrodes

You’d think it’d have been fifty years since the place was closed

Vengeance is not ours;

it belongs to those

Who seek to destroy us — how much more is there left to lose?