Raising Steam - Jethro Tull

Over high plains, through the snow

Roll those tracks out, don’t you know, I’m raising steam

Thin vein creeping, hot blood flow

Spill a little where the new towns grow

I got my whole life hanging in a sack

Heading out into that wide world wide

You got your locomotive sitting on your track

And I don’t care which way I ride

I may not be coming back

Left a lady with a heart

All in pieces come apart, raising steam

That engine up front

Must have a heart big enough for the both of us

Riding shotgun on the sunset, stare it in the eye

Rocking on my heels out to the west

Funny how the whole world, historically

Feels the urge to chase the sun to rest

We may not be coming back

Let me be your engineer

Have you smiling ear to ear, raising steam

And will you tell me how it feels

When you’re up and rolling on your driving wheels?

I got my whole life hanging in a sack

Heading out into that wide world wide

I’ll be your locomotive blowing off its stack

And I don’t care which way I ride

I may not be coming back

Raising steam, raising steam

Raising steam, I’m raising steam

Raising steam, raising steam

Raising steam, raising steam