"Song of A Train Wreck" genre: Americana
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	This is a song about what is lost when someone dies.
	CD: The Next of Kin   Label: EOS Records Credits: Don Dudding
	Story Behind the Song This song is about what experiences are lost when someone dies. In this song, a grandmother dies, and she is the last person to remember a train wreck that happened in her youth. Lyrics In the back of Grandma’s bible lists the children that she bore. She had postcards from Paris in a tin box beneath the floor. An old 78 record, it’s grooves were scratched and scored With the song of a train wreck, silent here for evermore. In a box in the basement is a suit that Grandpa wore. There’s a receipt still in his pocket dated 1944. There’s a picture of a sailor in Grandma’s chest of drawers. He sang the song of a train wreck, silent here for evermore. It was a night built for lovers as a silo’s built for grain. They held tight to each other was they listened for the rain. They heard a whistle from the distance and they always did recall The sound of the train wreck. Now it makes no sound at all. In a poster from a circus that never came to town, I imagine I see teardrops in the makeup of the clown. Does he cry with real emotion from a song he can’t ignore? Like the song of a train wreck, silently here for evermore.

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