Down The Line

Keep on walking
Down the line
Keep on walking
Down the line
Keep on walking
Down that street
Keep on walking
Down the line

At the crack of dawn
Down a dead end street
A staticky song clicks on
In a house dead asleep
He kicks off the bed sheets
Gets ready
Remembering a dream
That seemed like a memory
Sixteen
Listening to Springsteen in the Summer
She was a small town girl like her mother
They once loved each other
Jumping in the old river
Back when everybody would come home for dinner
Been a cold winter
Walking outside, eyes water
Working overtime to provide for his daughter
Driving by the same street signs on the corner
On the same two lane road
That his Daddy drove
Let the girl he was gonna marry go
At the local karaoke bar drunken in the shadows
It's a narrow line to keep following
All men
Have those times they need God again

Keep on walking
Down the line
Keep on walking
Down the line
Keep on walking
Down that street
Keep on walking
Down the line

Another day Another dollar
In blue collar America
Where if ya walk too tall
You feel like ya falling forever, the
People who could lose it all to the creditors
Used car lots
Mom & Pop shops, etcetera
Schools and malls
And small talk about the temperature
In the pool hall
There ain't a son of a Senator
Shooting the cue ball
With his eye on the pocket
He's dreaming of leaving
This environment is toxic
Trying to conquer it
On down the line
Dying in the process
And running out of time
How do you find the way back
After half ya life
On the other side of the train tracks
This place can trap people
It did it to him
Gonna change that
For his little kid if he can
The minute the wind shifts
And the timing is right
He might let it all ride on the dice
Until then you've got to

Keep on walking
Down the line
Keep on walking
Down the line
Keep on walking
Down that street
Keep on walking
Down the line

A couple tough years
And a few troubles and tears later
He's at the bar having a beer reading the paper
There's a regular in his ear
Raving about a pay cut
Nobody's lucky around here
Everybody's stuck
But he's up and at 'em
In his old truck grabbin'
A Dunkin' Donuts cup of Joe
And just imagining
Putting this whole fucking town in the rear view
All the sudden gets a call from his cousin
Out of the clear blue sky
Guy comes from money on his mother's side
He used to buy weed from him in junior high
Said an uncle died and left an estate
Mentioned his name on the inheritance letter kept in a safe
And from that very second on
Every breath he takes
Paves the way
Down the line
To better days

Keep on walking
Down the line
Keep on walking
Down the line
Keep on walking
Down that street
Keep on walking
Down the line