The Iron Horse - Levi Stoker

Black smoke rising like a widow's veil against the blue

Feeding coal into the belly of the beast I'm pushing through

Just 10,000 tons of stubborn, cold rolled rivets and pride

With a fire in a furnace that an ocean couldn't hide

I'm the master of the pressure, I'm the king of the rail

Riding on a lightning bolt that's never gonna fail

The world is getting softer but the steel is getting hard

Waiting for the signal in the boneyard of the yard

Let the iron horse run, let the thunder shake the ground

I'm a cross country spirit that's never gonna be bound

Between the piston and the prayer, between the water and the flame

I'm riding out my legend in a soot-blackened name

You can't stop the motion and you can't break the force

Of a man and his machine riding on the iron horse

I've got grease beneath my fingernails and cinders in my hair

Breathing in the rhythm of the heavy mountain air

The silver tracks are singing like a choir in the night

Turning all this muscle toll the morning's early light

They build us out of iron so we never have to bleed

To satisfy the hunger and the never-ending greed

But there's a soul inside the boiler, there's a ghost inside the gear

And when we hit the raddest, they always sound the hear

With fire and force worth that the thunder shakes the ground

I'm a cross country spirit that's never gonna be bound

Between the piston and the prayer, between the water and the flame

I'm riding out my legend in a soot-blackened name

You can't stop the motion and you can't break the force

Of a man and his machine riding on the iron horse

Still rolling

Out on the line

The iron horse

Still rolling

Hear the whistle screaming like a thousand damned souls

Let the iron horse run, let the thunder shake the ground

I'm a cross country spirit that's never gonna be bound

Between the piston and the prayer, between the water and the flame

I'm riding out my legend in a soot-blackened name

You can't stop the motion and you can't break the force

Of a man and his machine riding on the iron horse

Still rolling

Out on the line

The iron horse