Lyrics
The Steel
Up on the steel, outside my town
Where the train runs every hour
On a clear night in mid December
Where the cold tracks cut through the pines
Hung heavy with snow, they stretch to the sky
So black, so still, so calm.
So here I am out on the steel
I am going to ride that train,
That faraway train.
This trains going to take me home.
I hear not a whisper, not a bird with a song
Just my heart driving that train
And it’s coming on down the line
I can hear its whistle blow
At a quarter to nine it’s just passed her house, by nine she’ll be gone
I was never good enough,
never good enough for her.
My best was never enough
She said that she loved me,
I believed what she said
but in the end she lied.
So here I am out on the steel
I am going to ride that train,
That faraway train.
This trains going to take me home.
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