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
