Sam Baker - Iron lyrics

Well it's iron that he hangs He loves his work He drives hours each day He's never been hurt Got a back of steel Got burns on the sleeves of his shirt He drinks too much when stuff gets heavy He can't think straight his mind gets hazy He stops at a sports bar and everybody knows he's a flirt So he's driving to work With his head split open From last nights drinking and last nights smoking And he never got home And now there will be hell to pay 'Cause she'll be yelling and he'll be screaming And the kids will be crying Like a house full of demons Says to himself, "Why do people live this way?' She says to Lou Ann, "He's the father of my babies I know you think I'm wrong, I know you think I'm crazy Sticking around while he's drunk all over town But you don't see he can be so sweet He only gets mean when he gets in his drink He's good to the kids It's just sometimes he gets down" Iron drops bad You know it just seems to fit He gets busted on his wells He wants to just quit He wants to curl up tight on a cold white ground and cry But he works full shift Picks up a six It's almost Christmas The roads are getting slick She's gonna be at the door Gonna be hell of a fight So he's an hour out of Lincoln No shoulder on the road Its dark and its snowing He oughtta go slow But he pushes it forward Planes and slides like a sled The tires hit the edge He spins at the top The truck slides low in the ditch till it stops It hurts where he banged his head So he sits in the cab He can't read the gauges The wipers whip like wind over pagers It's loud There's static on the radio It gets too light to see He just stares It gets too light to see And then he gets scared Then the light was gone Just wipers, wind turned snow Well she says to Lou Ann, "He's the father of my babies I know you think I'm wrong, I know you think I'm crazy Sticking around when he's drunk all over town But you don't see, he can be so sweet He only gets mean when he gets in his drink He's good to the kids Its just sometimes he gets down" So he pulls back on He drives real slow Throws the last of the six out the window in the snow Something's changed Saw light, he should have seen dark That's the last time he drank Still a hell of a fight She knew he wasn't lying when he told her about the light She knew he wasn't lying about the light (Girl) "It's iron that he hangs He loves his work Drives hours each day He's never been hurt Got a back of steel Got burns on the sleeves of his shirt"