Train Song Songtext
von Murray McLauchlan

I saw the sky fill up with engines
Heard the world fill up with noise
Laid a penny on a track, got a flapjack back
As the driver waved to the boys
I watched the people at the window
From the bushes as the diner flew by
Now I look from the window at the diner
For a kid with hungry eyes

This is a train song
It′s a song about getting lost
It's a song about what that cost
This is a train song
For birds that are stuck on the ground
For ears that only listen for distant sounds


Just me and the stars on a flat car
As the train pulled into Scriber Town
Cops on the jump and I was running
I was scared they gonna run me down
Now I see the porter smiling to my left hand
As he′s looking at the money that I hold in my right
And I think how it's nice, he wants to know my name
And I laugh out the window at the night

This is a train song
It's a song about getting lost
It′s a song about what that cost
This is a train song
For birds that are stuck on the ground
For ears that only listen for distant sounds

Hear the moaning of the midnight whistle
Hear the ringing of the railroad sign
Someone′s lover has come and gone
On the double steel high line
They say every railroad line has a bad side
Where they make all the poor people stay
Though some of the bad ones might make it across
That train passes by anyway


This is a train song
It's a song about getting lost
It′s a song about what that cost
This is a train song
For birds that are stuck on the ground
For ears that only listen for distant sounds