Editing Grimdark Songwriting (section)

=== Promethium Road (Steve Earle: Copperhead Road) ===
''Promethium Road, Sung by a farmer's boy from Gath''

Well my name's Anval Gidemore <br>
Same as my father and his father before <br>
You hardly ever saw grandfather 'round here <br>
He only went to port about twice a year <br>
He'd buy a couple bags of yeast and some plasteel line <br>
Everyone on Gath knew he brewed white gyn <br>
Now the arbites wanted grandfather bad <br>
Headed up our pasture with everything he had <br>
It's before my birth but I've been told <br>
He never came back from Promethium Road <br>

Now Father brewed the whiskey in a Leman Russ <br>
Guard surplus they just toss the stuff <br>
Cadian 18th written on the side <br>
Just shot a coat of paint and then he looked inside <br>
Well him and my uncle tore it all to hell <br>
I still remember that putrid smell <br>
Then the Arbites came by in the middle of the night <br>
Heard mother crying, something wasn't right <br>
He was busy brewing up the weekly load <br>
You could see whiskey burning down Promethium Road <br>

I volunteered for the Guard on my birthday <br>
They draft the farmers boys first 'round here anyway <br>
I did five years of fighting with the Catachan <br>
I came back to Gath with a brand new plan <br>
I take the seed that grows near New Jericho <br>
And I plant up our pasture down Promethium Road <br>
Now the Arbites got their gander in the air <br>
Wake up screaming like I'm back over there <br>
I learned a thing or two from the 'Catas don't you know <br>
You better stay away from Promethium Road <br>