To Barely Survive

Well my daddy would go to work every single day

Then he'd come home at night and drink himself sane

He just couldn't catch a break when the engine came down

He's just half a mile away then he's on the eastbound

And I miss the engines rumble as it pulls into town

But it gets a little old when there's no other sound

Yeah the whistle would blow throughout the night

Guiding him home through the other side

Yeah there's no one like him he just don't give a damn

He's doing what he's gotta do to be a man

But the boy that's inside, he takes it all in stride

He's doing what he's got to do to barely survive

Yeah that Burlington Northern will swallow you whole

The years they pass by him so young but so old

He's just trying to escape from this cold-hearted world

Knowing that his grain of sand will never be a pearl

No there's no one like him he just don't give a damn

He's doing what he's gotta do to be a man

But the boy that's inside, he takes it all in stride

He's doing what he's got to do to barely survive

Yeah there's no one like him he just don't give a damn

He's doing what he's gotta do to be a man

But the boy that's inside, he takes it all in stride

He's doing what he's got to do to barely survive

He's doing what he's got to do to barely survive