Jonah Tolchin - Rocks & Nails lyrics

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The 2:19 took my baby away

saw it from the window above

I was screaming from the cabin-car didn't know I had gone to far

She stared straight into my eyes

The look that she gave me full of love empty of waiting

for me to come back home one more time

You see I've been traveling trying feed 6 children

work where-ever I can get it

But after 10 long years of these rambling tears

her weary mind drove her heart over the line

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Passing train, take me away

leave my bones crush my name

sing my song, red on your rails

let me sleep with rocks & nails

just let me sleep with rocks & nails

Well we drifted on by for the train had never-known

how to love or how to sympathize

Just kept rolling through forests, through the fields through the cities

as I sat there waiting to wake up

but when the station bell ringed clear as her face

dark as the sting of the thoughts that began to creep to the edges of my brain

I went crazy with the sun, hopped off the train bought gun but

decided I wanted to go out the same way that she had done

to sleep beneath the rocks & the nails

search for her soul between to the rails

our names forever written in the rust

Chorus

if you don't know how the story goes I bought the finest wedding clothes

kneeled down between the vibrating steel and proceeded to propose

the train barreled through the mist, to say I do and give the kiss

of final binding vows ending with eternal lifelessness

the train rolled by the devil laughed said this is the wrath

of moneys lack, this is the land of freedom only for the rich

Chorus:

Passing train, take us away

leave our bones crush our names

sing our song, red on your rails

and let us sleep with rocks & nails

just let us sleep with rocks & nails