I’m locomotive, on a, salty bridge
It’s a cracked white window pane that, keeps my head hid
Wasting for nothing, on a, big old train
And the barmaids eyes are leaking wrongs and horrors
From the last, small, steel town, man you know we’ve been down
Dead souls rising on the misty moon
Well she grabbed my hands, blinked my eyes
The room turned around expecting nothing but lies
Well there’s just three things that you never do riding on a train
I’ve been thinking, I still like driving
It’s the lost skin, warm hearted, burning pain, that makes you want it
Wishing for living, on a, big old train
And I walked three aisles to the corner of the car and said
Listen over here, I got something to say
But when the folks turned over I was barely alive
Thinking to myself I know nothing but lies
So I held my head, fell to the floor
Well there’s just three things that you never do riding on a train
Lost in something, but grinding rail
Gonna find me a mailbox southbound and breathe some air
Living for living, on this, big old train
But she aches my bones on another southern side blues mamma
With the bends from the rolling eye motion
Running harder and faster from the
Month down payments and the
Little line statements, all the beggars and thieves saying
Something’s going wrong with my eye dilation
And all the big eyed boys are wearing money like a mask
But I never said nothing to the man in the hat
I was shuffling cards when he made his attack
He said
Son you know I used to be living like you
Running to the devil with another kind of truth
When my feet grew old and my heart grew weak
I turned to the lord and made my lonely retreat
And because I see myself in the shining of your face
I wanna give you something that will help you start to elate
Well he grabbed my neck and we fell to the floor
There’s just three things that you never do riding on a train.
credits
from Head Full Of Rain,
released May 1, 2008
Music and Lyrics by Bradley Tindall
Mixed and Mastered by Bruce A. Miller bruceamiller.us
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