Keep on walking Down the line Keep on walking Down the line Keep on walking Down that street Keep on walking Down the line At the crack of dawn Down a dead end street A staticky song clicks on In a house dead asleep He kicks off the bed sheets Gets ready Remembering a dream That seemed like a memory Sixteen Listening to Springsteen in the Summer She was a small town girl like her mother They once loved each other Jumping in the old river Back when everybody would come home for dinner Been a cold winter Walking outside, eyes water Working overtime to provide for his daughter Driving by the same street signs on the corner On the same two lane road That his Daddy drove Let the girl he was gonna marry go At the local karaoke bar drunken in the shadows It's a narrow line to keep following All men Have those times they need God again Keep on walking Down the line Keep on walking Down the line Keep on walking Down that street Keep on walking Down the line Another day Another dollar In blue collar America Where if ya walk too tall You feel like ya falling forever, the People who could lose it all to the creditors Used car lots Mom & Pop shops, etcetera Schools and malls And small talk about the temperature In the pool hall There ain't a son of a Senator Shooting the cue ball With his eye on the pocket He's dreaming of leaving This environment is toxic Trying to conquer it On down the line Dying in the process And running out of time How do you find the way back After half ya life On the other side of the train tracks This place can trap people It did it to him Gonna change that For his little kid if he can The minute the wind shifts And the timing is right He might let it all ride on the dice Until then you've got to Keep on walking Down the line Keep on walking Down the line Keep on walking Down that street Keep on walking Down the line A couple tough years And a few troubles and tears later He's at the bar having a beer reading the paper There's a regular in his ear Raving about a pay cut Nobody's lucky around here Everybody's stuck But he's up and at 'em In his old truck grabbin' A Dunkin' Donuts cup of Joe And just imagining Putting this whole fucking town in the rear view All the sudden gets a call from his cousin Out of the clear blue sky Guy comes from money on his mother's side He used to buy weed from him in junior high Said an uncle died and left an estate Mentioned his name on the inheritance letter kept in a safe And from that very second on Every breath he takes Paves the way Down the line To better days Keep on walking Down the line Keep on walking Down the line Keep on walking Down that street Keep on walking Down the line