Story Behind The Song

Class struggles highlighted by disasters in New Orleans, poverty in cities around the world, exploitation thereof by organised crime.

Song Description

About wasted lives in the gang-crime-drug world.

Lyrics

MIDNIGHT TRAIN ? Old Relic
Chorus(lead-in)
Na Na-na-na Na-na-na-na-na-na Na-na-na-na-na-na (2)

Verse 1
they run together
it's a winner's bell and the loser's down forever
I tried to tell them
there's a better way where they all win in the end
and they kill their pain on the midnight train through the ghetto
and they run it through when they need to pay their dues
and they never talk when they take that walk in the shadow
and they pack their guns for the gauntlet run through the mews

Chorus
Na-na-na Na-na-na Na-na-na-na-na-na Na-na-na-na-na-na (2)

Verse 2
went down together
was a winter's night when the darkness fell forever
shoulder to shoulder
nothing much was said as they lay among the dead
and the neon sky lit the ground where they lay in the shadows
and the vagrants took their clothes and said a prayer
and the reaper read their names on the streets of the ghetto
and the midnight train rolled along and left them there

Chorus(Play-out)
Na-na-na Na-na-na Na-na-na-na-na-na Na-
na-na-na-na-na (Repeat)