Adrian Belew - The Rail Song Lyrics
I recall as a boy we would hop the freightsWasnt nothin but a kick back thenThere was no better thrill for my anxious heartThan a long flatcarHeadin out of the yardAnd I knew even then she was in my bloodLike the time when I first hired onAnd the fireman laughed at my bony noseBut he tossed me a capSaid gm&oAnd I was a man...I gave her my best yearsWell, what can you do but laughI dont expect shell ever be coming backWhen we climbed up the great appalachiansHer engines would be raging like hellThen wed come back down to the rising townsWhere the cattle stareIn the frozen airFor me there nothing more sacredThan the beautiful sound shed makeHer long blue signal blowin deep in the night,It would get to me there,It would get to me thereNow Im afraid...Afraid of these silent hoursAwake underneath my old capI dont expect shell ever be coming backWell, I watched the beginning of the end for herWhen I saw my first jet airplaneFlying high overhead like a bird of preyWhile the mighty fellIn the land of the braveNow Im alone.
