The Weight of the World - Emmylou Harris, Rodney Crowell

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)