Bruce *****burn - Night Train Lyrics
Not a knife throw from here you can hear the night train passingThat's the sound somebody makes when they're getting awayLeaving next week's hanging jury far behind themPrisoner only of the choices they have madeNight Train...Night Train...Ice cube in a dark drink shines like starlightThe moon is floating somewhere out at seaOn an island in the blur of noise and colorAlcatraz, St. Alina, Patmos and the Chateau D'ifNight Train...Night Train...And everyone's an island edged with sandA temporary refuge where somebody else can standTill the sea that binds us like the forced tie of a blood oathWill wear it down, dissolve it, recombine itAnyone can die here they do it every dayIt doesn't take much effort though it goes against the grainAnd the ultimate forgetfulness of violenceSweeps the landscape like a headlight of a trainNight Train...Ice cube in a dark drink shines like starlightStarlight shines like glass shards in dark hairAnd the mind's eye tumbles out along the steel trackFixing every shadow with its stareNight Train...Night Train...And in the absence of a vision there are nightmaresAnd in the absence of compassion there is cancerWhose banner waves over palaces and mean streetsAnd the rhythm of the night train is a mantra
