Standard (EADGBE)

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 - Mm-mmm-mm-mmmm

 I keep towin' that line - Mm-mmm-mmmm

Well 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 from 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

 And I stare up to that daemon that I know has got to die

 I keep towin' that line - Mm-mmm-mm-mmmm

 I keep towin' that line - Mm-mmm-mmmm

Solo

 I keep towin' that line - Mm-mmm-mm-mmmm

 I keep towin' that line - Mm-mmm-mmmm

But down in ditches by that road I call my own

 All of you come up cussin' now and all just throwing stones

 Yes they're big men now to settle down and life's so stale and cold

 As if I could ever do 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 - Mm-mmm-mm-mmmm

 I'm just towin' that line - Mm-mmm-mmmm

 I'm just towin' that line - Mm-mmm-mm-mmmm

 I'm just towin' that line - Mm-mmm-mmmm

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