Lyrics

" Train Song"

I started watching those tracks when I was four feet high
I used to sleep in the fields just to hear em roll by
You could smell the air filling up with smoke
Tuggin' at your dress "come on let's go"

Reaching into the heart of me
In the back - tell me what do you see?
Empty cars was all I'd known
but I could write a train song if you let me go

When I was seventeen I started getting into fights
Then I shot a man dead in the street one night
Papa knew the trouble that was coming my way
he'd turn me in himself i I tried to stay

Reaching into the heart of me
In the back - tell me what do you see?
Empty cars was all I'd known
but I could write a train song if you let me go

Ooh- life on the run
Digging holes- Chasing that sun
Old enough to know I'm right
Too young to make it out of town alive

Reaching into the heart of me
In the back- tell me what do you see?
Empty cars was all I'd known
but I can write a train song if you let me go

I hid behind a barn a few towns away
The sheriff and his boys and an empty highway
Hoping and praying they'd let me be
The promise I made to hear my plea...

Reaching into the heart of me
In the back- tell me what do you see?
Empty cars was all I'd known
but I could write a train song if you let me go
I could write a train song if you let me go