Holly Williams - Railroads lyrics

rate me

Well, I used to pray to Jesus

But I turned back since

Carrying the burdens of a creature’s kid

Drinking at the pub and healing in the lane

Daddy was a rider on the old death train

And I had me a woman but she took my kid

When I gave her all our money on a moonshine still

Now I drink my whiskey from a beat up flask

This train gonna part it and it’s going fast

Oh, the wheels, they spin

They’re faster than a speeding airplane on a sunny day

And I can’t break free ‘cause I can’t believe it

So I’ll take your bet, I’ll try me walking down a narrow line

With a life like mine

And you’ve never seen any boy as brave as me

Yeah, I hope that this old railroad delivers me

I’m still the talk of this town, I’m still the roll of their dice

I found me a lover and a whore house wife

She never knew her mamma or the money I’ve known

Don’t ever make a judgment if you ain’t been shown

You never walked in my shoes, you never understood

Why I was escaping any way that I could

Nobody knows, I’m gonna ride these rails

Till the dark comes over this prison cell

Oh, the wheels, they spin

They’re faster than a speeding airplane on a sunny day

And I can’t break free ‘cause I can’t believe it

So I’ll take your bet, I’ll try me walking down a narrow line

With a life like mine

And you’ve never seen any boy as brave as me

Yeah, I hope that this old railroad delivers me

Well the truth came out and the church burned down

Daddy’s heart stopped on the edge of this town

I’m out here searching for that boy of my own

Don’t ever make a judgment if you ain’t been shown

Oh, the wheels, they spin

They’re faster than a speeding airplane on a sunny day

And I can’t break free ‘cause I can’t believe it

So I’ll take your bet, I’ll try me walking down a narrow line

With a life like mine

And you’ve never seen any boy as brave as me

Yeah, I hope this old railroad delivers me