Now you're gone, well it's been three years long
I still feel it in this heart of mine
This heavy heart of mine seems to waste no time
Placing burden in this troubled lonesome soul

For the troubles that you'd find in the things I left behind
When you rode off in the dark that night
And now you're gone for good and I think it's understood
That you ain't never coming back this way

They found you in those mines that lay deep within those pines
In the mountains where I dare not go
And I struggled not to cry as the sewer closed your eyes
And the digger put the shovel to his hands

But I shed no tears even after all these years
That I spent running around with you
Though I must admit it hurt when they covered you with dirt
And they lowered you into the ground

Ooh, heavy heart of mine
Ooh, it's a heavy heart of mine

They said when you got killed that the wrong blood had been spilled
And the guilty slipped away into the night
Don't think I felt no shame when I denied to know your name
To the men that would've stolen my life

'Cause I still shed plenty tears even after all these years
That I spent running 'round without you
And now I'm gone for good and I think it's understood
That I ain't never coming back this way

Ooh, heavy heart of mine
Ooh, heavy heart of mine
Ooh, heavy heart of mine
Ooh, it's a heavy heart of mine