The Band Of Heathens - Nine Steps Down lyrics

Nine steps down on a ten story ride One part love and two parts pride Three tons of steel with four miles to go Sinking them down in the Gulf of Mexico Rigged on point, the top of the tower Watch for those waves they'll be rising fast The call to the driller down on the shore Derrickhand you better keep pumping that gas No time to think of the girls in their cotton Dresses they wear in the early springtime Memories here they're all long forgotten Nine steps down on a ten story ride Nine steps down on a ten story ride Now all of the boys thought you were a beauty My motivation was a little less kind Come with me I got something to show you Out past the trees where the river runs wild My oh my but you were more than I bargained For one time at the five and dime Spending all my nickels and quarters One part love and two parts pride One part love and two parts pride You put the hammer on down, we might just make it Watch your eyes from drifting off the road Won't you drink 'em on down five for a dollar Get 'em to the man with the weekly load The rubber on the tires burning like a matchstick Blacklist heart on a long ride home Ain't no god just a lifetime of Sundays Three tons of steel and four miles to go Three tons of steel and four miles to go Waters a-rising all around your mind The slack pulling fast but you try to keep a-loose There's a storm rolling in on New Orleans Gonna string everybody in a hang man's noose Nine steps down on a ten story ride One part love and two parts pride Three tons of steel with four miles to go Sinking them down in the Gulf of Mexico Sinking them down in the Gulf of Mexico Sinking them down in the Gulf of Mexico