Hangin' On The Line

(Music & Lyrics by Ronald D. Crowder)

ASCAP © 2023

I tend to write a fair number of what I would consider hopeful songs. This is not one of them. I almost called this song working class blues. In a nutshell, this song is about the struggles that so many of us go through…to pay the bills, to live from day to day. And sometimes the weight of that is too much. And it can feel, quite frankly, like you are hanging on the line. Not a new idea, but my take on it. In the recording studio, I produced it in a way to try to reflect that same feeling of tension that the lyrics project. It starts off on the street with traffic and sirens, and the saxophone plays more and more dissonantly as the cacophony builds into the beginning of the song.

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I’ve got to find my way in this world 

And it’s making me crazy

Cause it’s getting harder and harder 

To keep up the pace now baby

   

It’s got me hangin’ on the line 

Workin’ overtime, baby, baby 

It keeps on knocking at my door 

I’m crawlin’ on the floor, baby, baby 

Been livin’ on the edge 

And I can’t hold out much longer  

Struggle to make ends meet 

But my sweat never feeds this hunger…it’s no wonder… 

It’s got me hangin’ on the line 

Workin’ overtime, baby, baby 

It keeps on knocking at my door 

I’m crawlin’ on the floor, baby, baby 

And when my bones get tired 

Left with no desires but survival 

They’ll bury me with my dreams 

My hopes, they were dead on arrival  

It’s got me hangin’ on the line 

Workin’ overtime, baby, baby 

It keeps on knocking at my door 

I’m crawlin’ on the floor, baby, baby 

It’s got me hangin’ on the line 

Workin’ overtime, baby, baby 

It keeps on knocking at my door 

I’m crawlin’ on the floor, baby, baby

 

It’s got me hangin’ on the line 

Workin’ overtime, baby, baby 

It keeps on knocking at my door 

I’m crawlin’ on the floor, baby, baby

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