In Another Life Lyrics - Inland Territory - Vienna Teng

In another life 

You and I 

worked West Virginia coal mines 

Side by side 

Collecting the black dust like sin 

The day the main shaft caved in 

I caught your eye 

As the lantern light guttered out 

And the afterdamp 

swallowed us slowly 

I gripped your hand 

And caught a glance 

Of the next time 'round 

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In another life 

You and I 

were Red Guards in training 

Side by side 

We marched on Tiananmen 

Turned our own parents in 

For hoarding rice 

And in the Great Leap forward 

We crawled on our bellies and died 

And a blood orange sky 

Gave a cry 

Of next time 'round 

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In another life 

I was married at thirteen 

You were killed at twenty-one 

On a minor battlefield 

I was buried beside 

my second stillborn child 

My last thought it seemed 

A fever dream 

Now we sink into a summer afternoon 

Central Park in June 

Marveling at the bounty 

our days contain 

And we feel it like the shiver 

Of a passing train 

That other life 

Deep underground 

You and I 

Side by side 

We are the next time 'round