In another life  You and I worked West Virginia coal mines  Side by side  Collecting the black dust like sin  The day the main shaft caved in  I caught your eye  As the lantern light guttered out  And the afterdamp swallowed us slowly  I gripped your hand  And caught a glance  Of the next time 'round    In another life  You and I were Red Guards in training  Side by side  We marched on Tiananmen  Turned our own parents in  For hoarding rice  And in the Great Leap forward  We crawled on our bellies and died  A blood orange sky  Gave a cry  Of next time 'round    In another life  I was married at thirteen  You were killed at twenty-one  On a minor battlefield  I was buried beside my second stillborn child  My last thought it seemed  A fever dream    Now we sink into a summer afternoon  Central Park in June  Marveling at the bounty our days contain  And we feel it like the shiver  Of a passing train  That other life  Deep underground  You and I  Side by side  We are the next time 'round    these lyrics are submitted by OarSmaN