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Bruce Springsteen - The Line Lyrics

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  • I got my discharge from fort irwin
  • Took a place on the san diego county line
  • Felt funny bein a civilian again
  • Itd be 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 to
  • Ld kept my uniform pressed and clean
  • At night I chased their shadows
  • Thru the arroyos and ravines
  • Drug runners farmers with their families
  • Young women with little children by their sides
  • Come night wed 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 Id lost
  • She had a young child cryin in her arms
  • I asked senora is there anything I can do?
  • Theres a bar in tijuana
  • Where me and bobby drink alongside
  • The same people wed 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 thru
  • At night they come across the levee
  • In the searchlights dusty glow
  • Wed rush em in our broncos
  • Force em back down into the river below
  • She climbed into my truck
  • She leaned toward me and we kissed
  • As we drove her brothers shirt slipped open
  • And I saw the tape across his chest
  • We were just about on the highway
  • When bobbys jeep come up in the dust on my right
  • I pulled over and let my engine run
  • And stepped out into his lights
  • I felt myself movin
  • My gun restin neath my hand
  • We stood there starin at each other
  • As off thru the arroyo she ran
  • Bobby ramirez he never said nothin
  • 6 months later I left the line
  • I drifted to the central valley
  • And took what work I could find
  • At night I searched the local bars
  • And the migrant towns
  • Lookin for my louisa
  • With the black hair fallin down

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