Track Insight / Lyrics
Summertime's furnace, desert blaze
Golden light on the horizon's gaze
Canyon whispers of secrets untold
As the railroad heart pounds bold
Through the heat, through the night
Gears keep turning, sparks alight
Whistle pierces the burnished air
My pulse marches, without care
Freight's the beat that never slows
Iron rhythm where the miles go
I'm the lifeline, the artery deep
Carving paths the pioneers keep
Jagged peaks, and shadowed guts
Where the old west in cacti hugs
Fragile blooms and ancient stones
Dot my route, my iron thrones
Through the heat, through the night
Gears keep turning, sparks alight
Whistle pierces the burnished air
My pulse marches, without care
Freight's the beat that never slows
Iron rhythm where the miles go
I'm the lifeline, the artery deep
Carving paths the pioneers keep
Fearless pioneers, wild and free
Ancestral spirits in the mesas, see
The westward dream upon my tracks
A steel wingbeat, a rails-back
Through the heat, through the night
Gears keep turning, sparks alight
Whistle pierces the burnished air
My pulse marches, without care
Freight's the beat that never slows
Iron rhythm where the miles go
I'm the lifeline, the artery deep
Carving paths the pioneers keep
In the stillness, before the dawn
Silhouettes of sage and granite born
The first light on unfolding range
My rhythm's heartbeat, my iron change
Freight's the beat that never slows
Iron rhythm where the miles go
I'm the lifeline, the artery deep
Carving paths for the earth asleep
In the pulse of rolling steel
I find my purpose, my mystic feel
For the land, for the dreamers bold
My tale's the one, the iron told.
