The Line-Bruce Springsteen

[ti:The Line(Album Version)] [ar:Bruce Springsteen] [al:The Ghost Of Tom Joad] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Line - Bruce Springsteen [00:08.23]I got my discharge from fort irwin [00:12.05]Took a place on the san diego county line [00:16.61]Felt funny bein a civilian again [00:21.61]Itd be some time [00:24.73]My wife had died a year ago [00:28.30]I was still tryin to find my way back whole [00:32.42]Went to work for the ins on the line [00:37.05]With the california border patrol [00:42.55]Bobby ramirez was a ten year veteran [00:48.10]We became friends [00:50.91]His family was from [00:52.60]Guanajuato [00:54.97]So the job it was different for him [00:58.72]He said they risk death in the deserts and mountains [01:02.77]Pay all they got to the smugglers rings [01:06.83]We send em home and they come right back again [01:11.21]Carl hunger is a powerful thing [01:17.58]Well I was good at doin what I was to [01:21.39]Ld kept my uniform pressed and clean [01:25.71]At night I chased their shadows [01:29.27]Thru the arroyos and ravines [01:33.80]Drug runners farmers with their families [01:37.30]Young women with little children by their sides [01:41.30]Come night wed wait out in the canyons [01:45.55]And try to keep em from crossin the line [01:52.43]Well the first time that I saw her [01:56.18]She was in the holdin pen [02:00.24]Our eyes met and she looked away [02:04.37]Then she looked back again [02:08.55]Her hair was black as coal [02:12.05]Her eyes reminded me of what Id lost [02:16.44]She had a young child cryin in her arms [02:20.13]I asked senora is there anything I can do [02:26.76]Theres a bar in tijuana [02:29.49]Where me and bobby alongsidedrink [02:30.59]The same people wed sent back the day before [02:34.93]She said her name was louisa [02:38.80]She was from sonora and had just come north [02:43.11]We danced and I held her in my arms [02:47.11]And I knew what I would do [02:50.68]She said she had some family in madera county [02:54.20]If she her child and younger brother could just get thru [03:00.95]At night they come across the levee [03:05.14]In the searchlights dusty glow [03:09.45]Wed rush em in our broncos [03:13.08]Force em back down into the river below [03:17.58]She climbed into my truck [03:21.39]She leaned toward me and we kissed [03:25.33]As we drove her brothers shirt slipped open [03:29.14]And I saw the tape across his chest [03:35.58]We were just about on the highway [03:38.83]When bobbys jeep come up in the dust on my right [03:44.20]I pulled over and let my engine run [03:48.02]And stepped out into his lights [03:53.21]I felt myself movin [03:56.39]My gun restin neath my hand [04:00.52]We stood there starin at each other [04:04.39]As off thru the arroyo she ran [04:14.39]Bobby ramirez he never said nothin [04:18.52]6 months later I left the line [04:22.89]I drifted to the central valley [04:26.77]And took what work I could find [04:31.02]At night I searched the local bars [04:36.14]And the migrant towns [04:39.33]Lookin for my louisa [04:42.14]With the black hair fallin down