Lyrics

Woke up beneath the trestles
to hear the whistle bearing down.
Didn't know the train's still running
in this Hell-forsaken town.
Jump back onto the metal rails
after the train passed by.
First signs of life I'd seen
since Nineteen Sixty-Five.
The train grew small and vanished
like its smoke into the wind.
Everything that comes into my life,
goes right back out again.

And it's forever and ever and ever on my own.
It's my curse in this life
to walk this road all alone.
But what's worse than this curse
that weighs heavy on my mind.
It's not never to love, but never to die.

My story, if indeed there's one,
ain't easy to be told.
I was born and then I lived,
lived some more, and now I'm old.
Don't remember well,
but they say it's written in a book.
How my brother, father, sister, mother,
someone's life I took.
I can't remember why
and I can't remember how
And if I'd known just what I wanted,
don't you think I'd taken it by now?

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Years ago one saw me
and he thought he knew my face,
But I swear I can't tell one apart
from the rest of the human race.
"It seems you've come along way
even burdened by this curse,
Son of Cain you bear your father's shame
but seven times worse."
"Tell me what you've learned,
what you you've learn and how"
I said, "If it seemed worth it at the time,
it certainly doesn't seem so now!"

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No voice to soothe my troubled soul,
no hand to join my ramblings.
Dust and wind and sun and rain:
my only companions.
Death can't even find me
for the mark upon my right.
No sickness can destroy my flesh,
no man can take my life.
Perhaps somebody placed me here
a noble work to wrought,
To pay the price for another man's sins,
but then somehow forgot (about me).

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