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
Try and pretend as if it 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-mm-mm-mm
I keep towin' that line, mm-mm-mm-mm

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
And all them old men, they sit staring as life slips out of their grips
Only to fall and disappear beyond their cracked ol' fingertips

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-mm-mm-mm
I keep towin' that line, mm-mm-mm-mm
I keep towin' that line, mm-mm-mm-mm
I keep towin' that line, mm-mm-mm-mm

But down in ditches by that road I call my own
All them gypsies come up cussin' now and all just throwing stones
And yes, they're big men now to settle down and life's so stale and cold
As if I could 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, mm-mm-mm-mm
I'm just towin' that line, mm-mm-mm-mm