Southbound Train

Album: Fall (2007)
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  • Oh, I guess they'll say I've grown
    I know more than I wanted to know
    I've said more than I wanted to say

    I'm heading home
    Yeah, but I'm not so sure
    That home is a place
    You can still get to by train

    So I'm looking out the window
    And I'm drifting off to sleep
    With my face pressed up against the pane
    With the rhythm of my heart
    And the ringing in my ears
    It's the rhythm of the Southbound Train

    Oh, and the wind starts to look like her hair
    And the clouds in her bright blue eyes
    As the sea and the shore fall and rise
    Like her breast as she breathes by my side
    And the moon is her lips as the sun
    Is headed on down to the sea
    Like her head as she lays down on me
    Until we reach Oceanside

    Over and over
    I hear the same refrain
    It's the rhythm of my heart
    And my sleepy girl's breathing
    It's the rhythm of my Southbound Train

    Oh, I suppose they'll say I should've known
    Or maybe I'm just feeling old
    Like a lawyer
    With no one to blame

    I'm headed home
    Yeah, but I'm not so sure
    That home is a place
    That will ever be the same

    So we gather up our things
    And we head out in the cold
    And your eyes are where you carry the pain
    When I hear the whistle weeping
    It's crying to the sky
    It's the rhythm of my Southbound Train
    It's the rhythm of my Southbound Train Writer/s: JON FOREMAN
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