Cold Black Mile (Hotel Version)

This one went deep
These wounds will last
This one's more than just the past
This one's still here
It fills up these rooms
Everything I see around me reminds me of you
It's a war I fight every night
Out here alone on the coal black mile
It's in the grey of the morning
It's in the sound of her name
It's in the walls of that home where we lived
Where the love just couldn't stay
And this might be the hardest thing I'll ever have to survive
It's time to walk down the coal black mile
I was on the front line
Yeah, you watched me retreat
When I came back busted and broken
I was still standing on my feet
No, I'm not on my knees anymore
I ain't praying for some open door
Waiting for something we both know just don't belong here anymore
I'll take the pain
Feel it grow inside
It's all I can carry on the coal black mile
It's in the pain without answers
It's in the things you can't change
It's in the calling it forever
Then the words just blow away
And I might die a thousand times, but I know I can survive
Just keep on pushing down the coal black mile
And it might have taken everything, but it gave me back my life
Morning is breaking now on the coal black mile