Red Mountain (Alexei Lee)

had a few thoughts about something i've seen a majority of my life but never thought long and hard about until it was far away. if any natural thing could be restored with a wish, i'd wish for Red Mountain to not have an expressway. available in higher quality on: [Bandcamp](https://okadaibro.bandcamp.com/track/red-mountain) [Soundcloud](https://soundcloud.com/alex-lee-83707316/red-mountain) lyrics: *"the dozer goes..."* *"and the excavator goes..."* *"but the dynamite goes-"* *(fire in the hole!)* something's in the mountain buried beneath the earth's crust what once was lost in sediment is now coated in rust erosion from the elements bore down harder when man came lines of explosive charges revealed iron, coke, and shame carving through until the highway runs as red as the mountain's in the pageant and its face on the roadside we thought it gave us wealth yet never questioned what's inside strip mine, the dynamite tearing through the vein the blasts drown out its cries as it bl