Tow

Someone left a child and did not even care
 Before the first shots of the battle here had even pierced the air
 Yes, they run now like them children to those arms of mother earth
 Trying to pretend as if there was a day before their very birth
 But, me I just grab these ropes that me and mine have left behind
 And I stare up to that mountain that I know I got to climb
 I keep towin that line
 Mmmmmm
 I keep towin that line
 Mmmmmm
 But, down in basements choked with smoke child of the past
 All them dreams come up for air round here but they can only gasp
 All them old men they sit staring as life slips out of their grips
 Only to fall and disappear beyond their cracked old fingertips
 But, me I just grab these ropes me and mine have left behind
 Yes, I stare up to that mountain that I know I've got to climb
 I keep towin that line
 Mmmmmm
 I keep towin that line
 Mmmmmm
 (break)
 I keep towin that line
 Mmmmmm
 I keep towin that line
 Mmmmmm
 But down in ditches by that road I call my own
 All of you come a cussin' now all and all just throwing stones
 Yes they're big men now to settle down and life's so stale and cold
 As if I had to spend my life the way they do just as they're told
 So if you should find me living low when the miles have passed me by
 And it seems that I have left now all that I could love behind
 I'm just towin that line
 Mmmmmm
 I'm just towin that line
 Mmmmmm