Waking up alarm clock screaming
Staring at that tiny bunk ceiling
Lift boat still creaking
man I was dreaming
About dry land….
Rain, hail, sleet, and snow, that’s all in the winter you know.
One hundred degrees outside
Summers melting men
blistering heat… no wind!!
P and A proud
a sweaty dirty crowd
Back breaking work
Covered in black gold dirt
Calliced dirty hands
Always ready to go again an
Steel toes dragging across grating
Stiff shrunk gloves waitin
Burn em while you can days already began
Crane in the sky ready to fly
headache ball swinging
Relief notes slinging
Stinger coming in
Drop it on the hook
Kick it gear again and again………..
Twisted bolts don’t lie
Listen to that well head cry
Beat em, heat em, cut em, bust em…
Rivet buster rattlin
Impact cracking
scaffold ladder rackin
24 hours in a day
ain’t no one walking away.
That boat ride is hours away……
Testin, squeezin, pluggin, everyday…
thats because we ain’t here to play.
Dust clouds fly,
blenders on the mend,
circulate it round til it’s ready to send
Pump….it… all… away!
Drop another gear..
diesel engine ripping …
Squeezin the perfs …..
a balance going down on time
Wash it all down, displaced on a dime
At Dusk it don’t end
Night shift begins
Slick line ringing
Wire line singing
One run at a time
Getting pictures in the blind
Cast iron plugs on the line
Arming guns all the time
Pop it, jump it, send it
hangers grabbin, casing stabbing
When those big cutters hit and steel fly
Cuttin on pipe to watch it fly.
Sling it, label it, tag it, handle it.
Striking torches glowin in our eye
Rust poppin, Slag droppin
Greasy and wet with no regrets
The reapers of the gulf are here to end it
Pissin through grating….
fishing down time..
waiting on weather
It’s company man’s dime.
Plug it! abandoned it!
No one else can handle it.
Trying to get by at what cost no lie
Loved ones call on that cell
No service or why fie
The moneys why crush it, over again
Earn it while you can
Price we might pay, if you push it to the end
Six feet under left to next of kin!
Emptying the gulf one well at a time
P and A the ones that lay it on the line
Emptying the gulf one well at a time
P and A the government calls us ever time
Emptying the gulf one well at a time
P and A the reapers and the keeper at the damn same time
Emptying the gulf one well at a time
P and A works it out and finishes ahead of time
Emptying the gulf one well at a time
