Guy Clark - Heavy Metal lyrics

[Verse 1] Some days I think this old machine is out to get me Some days she does what I tell her It's like dancing with a widow-maker forty hours a week You know I'm talking 'bout a big old D-10 caterpillar [Chorus] I don't know why I like to drive them like I do It ain't nothing but a hundred seventy-five thousand pounds of steel Could be the money babe could be the power Could be I love the way it feels[x2] [Verse 2] But you know she's mighty unforgiving so you got to pay attention You know the D-10 can be the d**h of you But I get her all fired up and I can feel it in my soul And it's hard to tell who's driving who I can move Alaska all the way to Beirut I can bulldoze a beeline from here to Peru I can push the Rocky Mountains into the sea You know Heavy metal don't mean rock and roll to me You know I'm a modern day mule Skinner driving ten thousand mules So I got to say a little prayer every day Lord just let me get her turned around Without falling off this mountain You know the boss don't like me treating his D-10 that way [Chorus]