The Weight Of The World Lyrics - The Traveling Kind - Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell

Smoking down the track 

I'm a fireball mill 

Lord, coal's so black 

Can't even see the rail 

Followin' tongues of steel 

Behind, I drive the wheel 

Pulls the weight of the world 

Coming up the road 

Another rubber tire four 

They got us hooked on oil 

'Til the pipeline blow 

Such a shame to see 

Adding World War Three 

To the weight of the world 

Yeah, the weight of the world 

Up the top of a mountain 

Well I ne'er should 

Poisonous as the river 

With the devils's own sludge 

It's the American dream 

But if you live downstream 

Here comes the weight of the world 

Ton of plastic bottles 

Headed out to sea 

Bound to build an island 

Thanks to you and me 

Another man-made pearl 

For the junk we hurl 

Top the weight of the world 

Yeah, the weight of the world 

I got to feed the baby 

Recompense the rent 

For the way I think I? 

Where all the money went 

Well there's a piper to pay 

Can't get away 

From the weight of the world 

Look up in the sky 

Is it a bird or a plane? 

Taking love to [delight?] 

Drove us all insane 

Since it send us reeling 

The only thing with feeling 

Is the weight of the world 

First we get so numb 

Then we all succumb 

To the weight of the world 

Yeah the weight of the world 

(Let me get my guitar in there one more time)