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The Siskiyou Line

from Now You Know by Justin Roth

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lyrics

It must have shook those redwood timbers
I can hear my granddad say
When it echoed down the valley
On that clear October day

I was working as a gandy dancer
Two miles down the grade from Tunnel 13

Oh, and how my heart was racing
When we heard that engine blow
As we hurried up the crossties
Little did we know

In the dark of the tunnel, like night to the day
With the smell of gunpowder, in the shadow they lay
Like four warm stones in a mountain of time
From that unscheduled stop on the Siskiyou Line

We carried them down…

First time granddad told that story
Was the first I saw his tears
A man so full of laughter
It just flooded through the years

He said the way to keep your joy
Is to take your grief straight on

There were four gravestones from that mountain of time
And that unscheduled stop on the Siskiyou Line
We stood in the pews and we sang the refrain
'Cause there's something in song that speaks to pain

In Humboldt County, there's a redwood grove
That has stood for centuries
And in the shade of that sentient cathedral
He told this tale to me

Somewhere in that architecture
He must have heard the echo of Tunnel 13

It's just one song from a mountain of time
It was only one stop on the Siskiyou Line
Deep down in the grain, where history sings
How many stories, in two thousand rings?

We carry them down…

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from Now You Know, released May 3, 2011
written by Justin Roth & LJ Booth

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"Fans of Leo Kottke or Michael Hedges will find themselves right at home with [Roth's] intricate guitar work...beautifully written lyrics." - San Francisco Art Magazine

"Superb guitar player, singer, songwriter well worth seeking out...exquisite, emotional and powerful." - Maverick Magazine (UK)

"Now you know—Justin Roth has come into his own." - John Gorka, Red House Recording Artist
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