Black gold Rising

Alarm clock screaming at four-thirty a.m.

Coffee in a thermos, steel toes again

Dust on the dash, radio low

Another long drive down a caliche road

Headlights cut through a West Texas dawn

Rigs standing tall like iron-bone psalms

Pre-Chorus

Hands cracked raw, but the bills get paid

Every drop of sweat’s a price we trade

Chorus

We drill for a living, bleed diesel and steel

Chasing black gold buried deep and real

Sunrise to sunset, under hardhat skies

Oilfield brothers, we live, we grind

It ain’t easy, but it’s ours to hold

This roughneck life in the oilfield cold

Verse 2

Mud on the floorboard, grit in my grin

Thirty days gone, then I’m home again

Phone calls short, kids growing fast

Time slips away like a spinning shaft

Wind howls loud across the lease

But the crew’s got your back, no questions asked

Pre-Chorus

When the pressure’s high and the stakes are too

You trust your life to the hands next to you

Chorus

We drill for a living, bleed diesel and steel

Chasing black gold buried deep and real

Sunrise to sunset, under hardhat skies

Oilfield brothers, we live, we grind

It ain’t easy, but it’s ours to hold

This roughneck life in the oilfield cold

Bridge

Boom or bust, yeah, we’ve seen it all

From full-time work to a shutdown call

But when the bit hits pay, you feel it shake

Like freedom earned the hard way

Chorus (Final)

We drill for a living, hearts forged in stone

Miles from town, but never alone

Hands in the dirt, eyes on the prize

Oilfield blood runs thick inside

Say a prayer when the rig lights glow

For every man working down below

Outro

When the last pipe’s laid and the sun sinks low

We’ll raise a glass to the life we know

Black gold rising from the cold