Song information On this page you can read the lyrics of the song The Weight of the World , by - Emmylou Harris. Release date: 07.05.2015
Song language: English
The Weight of the World |
| 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) |