Iron Road-Old 97's

[ti:Iron Road] [ar:Old 97's] [al:Alive & Wired] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Iron Road - Old 97's [00:14.08]Hundred lists of reasons I keep 'round [00:17.10] [00:19.03]Why I never had a family [00:21.44] [00:22.17]Why I couldn't settle down [00:23.78] [00:24.95]Why I'd sooner in the mirror see a hobo lookin' low [00:29.59] [00:30.85]But the reasons now escape me as I walk the iron road [00:35.41] [00:37.95]Like a lot of kids I left my boyhood home [00:41.10] [00:43.57]Worked a little on the railroad Worked a little travelin' on [00:48.22] [00:49.47]Til the closest that I ever got to an address or a phone [00:54.07] [00:55.24]Was the day I spent my last two bits on a one page letter home [00:59.45] [01:02.31]At 21 my arches lay down flat [01:06.11] [01:08.35]22 I started takin' loans [01:10.98] [01:13.63]But if the train will come I'll wipe the box car dirt from off my bones [01:18.28] [01:19.32]And I'll curse the wheels that roll me roll me down that iron road [01:23.77] [01:49.07]Iron road iron road you'll never give up the gold [01:58.05] [02:00.09]I spent 24 hours today lookin' back and feelin' low [02:05.04] [02:06.58]24 hours of lookin' back can kill you I've been told [02:10.94] [02:13.65]At 60 my dad left that boyhood town [02:16.28] [02:18.84]Within a year our mother followed him to higher ground [02:23.20] [02:24.39]And I'll be next to join 'em soon as I see that engine roll [02:28.59] [02:32.27]Gonna lay my head on the railroad bed and leave that iron road [02:36.68] [02:37.96]Gonna lay my head on the railroad bed and leave that iron road [02:42.54] [02:44.99]At 21 my arches lay down flat [02:48.41] [02:50.96]22 I started takin' loans [02:54.51] [02:56.26]But if the train will come I'll wipe the box car dirt from off my bones [03:00.96] [03:02.11]And I'll curse the wheels that roll me roll me down that iron road