[Verse 1]
Dust on my boots
Sun in my eyes
Yellow iron waking up
Scraping at the sky
Steel tracks crawling
Over rock and clay
Laser lines in my head
Telling me the way
[Pre-Chorus]
I used to dig by feeling
Now the screen shows every line
Every cut
Every ceiling
Every slope in real time
[Chorus]
Caterpillar kings in the dirt tonight
Dozers sing in a glow of light
Trimble in the cab
Drawing ghost-white lines
I cut to the grade
I carve through the shale
Excavator heart
I will not fail
From the stake to the stake
Yeah
We own this line
[Verse 2]
Bucket teeth biting
Into ancient stone
Hydraulics humming
Like a distant drone
Topcon numbers
Staring back at me
Little blue horizon
Where the road should be
[Pre-Chorus]
We were guessing in the gravel
Now the future’s on the glass
Watching every contour travel
As the seconds pass
[Chorus]
Caterpillar kings in the dirt tonight
Dozers sing in a glow of light
Trimble in the cab
Drawing ghost-white lines
I cut to the grade
I carve through the shale
Excavator heart
I will not fail
From the stake to the stake
Yeah
We own this line
[Bridge]
I don’t pray for luck
I trust the wire in the veins
Satellites above
Talking straight into my brain
Every pass tighter
Every pass true
Iron and data
Yeah
We’re breaking through (hey!)
[Chorus]
Caterpillar kings in the dirt tonight
Dozers sing in a glow of light
Trimble in the cab
Drawing ghost-white lines
I cut to the grade
I carve through the shale
Excavator heart
I will not fail
From the stake to the stake
Yeah
We own this line