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If you've ever been on a train in the dark phase of the moon, on a train like the train old Casey Jones took howling through the night, you may have had the feeling that you were in some place so far out there that there was nothing but the train running on its tracks forever. And then it may have struck you that you'd just better get back home or the train really might never stop. Home, where she's waiting.
lyrics
ON A TRAIN LYRICS
I’m on a train goin’ nowhere in the night
I’m looking hard but I may have lost my sight
I’m on the run and I can’t afford a flight
I’m on a train goin’ nowhere in the night
A brown-eyed woman back there waitin’ by the phone
That is not a thing I tried to bring to pass
She’s not the kind you really want to leave alone
She’s on Gypsy time and she says it’s movin’ fast.
Chorus
The rails aren’t humming, they just rattle and they crack
There are things on board that really shouldn’t be
But all I care about is the quickest way that’s back
It’s only been a while but it’s way too long for me
Chorus
I hear her now, she’s been sighin’ out my name
Then she whispers ‘Runnin’ will not ever bring relief
And if you act like this is really all a game
You may have my heart but you will just be a thief”
Chorus
If I can steal away and turn this thing around
I’ll never leave again unless she wants me to
There is not one speck of doubt that we have found
The kind of thing that we are never meant to do
Chorus x 2
credits
released May 22, 2013
Music and Lyrics: David Hallam
Vocals: David Hallam
Lead Guitar: Dan Howlett
Rhythm Guitar: Dale Bishop
Guitar/Vocals: B Nash
Bass Guitar: Peter McFarlane
Drums: Bruce Cameron
Produced by: Daryl Chonka, Old Growth Studio
(with Lane 31)
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