The Power Lines Lyrics - Nanci Griffith

Nobody seems to care about you 

With your tool case by the roadside 

There beneath the power lines 

Or the pallor of your skin 

Paled beneath fluorescent lights 

In a Greyhound station's cruel midnight 

Where you can't afford the ride 

Oh, the power lines 

They go from sea to sea 

They carry voices 

Love from him to me 

The power lines you fall beneath 

Are the rainbows you can't climb 

And you will not climb the power lines 

'Cause you are lost beneath the power lines 

There's no place that you haven't been 

And no place that you call your home 

There's no place that you cannot go 

With the gift within your hands 

And the tools to build another's dream 

That connects them to the power lines 

You do not feel you need 

Oh, the power lines 

They go from sea to sea 

They carry voices 

Love from him to me 

The power lines you fall beneath 

Are the rainbows you can't climb 

And you will not climb the power lines 

'Cause you are lost beneath the power lines