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Lyrics for The Line by BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN:
| | | Artist: | BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN |
| | Album: | Unknown | | Track: | The Line | | | | Date Added: | 18/10/2007 | | Views: | 167 | | | | Lyrics: | I got my discharge from Fort Irwin
Took a place on the San Diego county line
Felt funny
bein' a civilian again
It'd been some time
My wife had died a year ago
I was still
tryin' to find my way back whole
Went to work for the INS on the line
With the California
border patrol
Bobby Ramirez was a ten-year veteran
We became friends
His family was
from Guanajuato
So the job it was different for him
He said "They risk death in the deserts
and mountains
Pay all they got to the smugglers rings
We send 'em home and they come right
back again
Carl hunger is a powerful thing."
Well I was good at doin' what I was
told
Kept my uniform pressed and clean
At night I chased their shadows
Through the
arroyos and ravines
Drug runners farmers with their families
Young women with little
children by their sides
Come night we'd wait out in the canyons
And try to keep 'em from
crossin' the line
Well the first time that I saw her
She was in the holdin' pen
Our
eyes met and she looked away
Then she looked back again
Her hair was black as coal
Her
eyes reminded me of what I'd lost
She had a young child cryin' in her arms
I asked "Senora
is there anything I can do ?"
There's a bar in Tijuana
Where me and Bobby drink
alongside
The same people we'd sent back the day before
She said her name was Louisa
She
was from Sonora and had just come north
We danced and I held her in my arms
And I knew what
I would do
She said she had some family in Madera county
If she her child and younger
brother could just get through
At night they come across the levee
In the searchlight's
dusty glow
We'd rush 'em in our Bron | | | |  Reddit | X / Twitter | Facebook | Copy link |
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