About a Train Songtext
von Spin Doctors

I hear the train a-coming from the junction
Troubling my mind is its favorite function
It makes a cloud on yonder highway
Midnight of the night I cannot hear it moan

I heard that the haven was going down
According to some folks who are still around
Walking through the fractals and pterodactyls
The memories in the cracks, they are so tactile
Actually I wonder if they′re factual

My head is full of sky and my boots are full of ocean
A stolen desire for perpetual motion
Love stopped and shattered, tattered and unfolding


City man he won't tell me
Won′t tell me what it is
Won't tell me what it is
What it is he's showing

I heard that the haven was going down
According to some folks who are still around
Walking through the fractals and pterodactyls
The memories in the cracks, they are so tactile
Actually I wonder if they′re factual

My heart is a stone and my head is a canyon
A horn-flung horn that′s my only companion
Love is gone, I'm being washed out in the rain

Leaving town, mumbling something
Mumbling, mumbling something
Mumbling something
Oh, I′m by the train