WILLARD GRANT CONSPIRACY - SOUTHEND OF A NORTHBOUND TRAIN lyrics

rate me

There's a rise

Above the river

Where the hangmans tree

Hugs the rim

A brace of crows

Crowd the bank

Like mourners

On their way

To the Mercy bridge

A whistle blows

A freight rolls by

Pallbearers rest

Their load

It all seems clear

Life's gone from here

As he is lowered

In the hole

Chorus

Mary seems uncertain now

As she follows

To his rest

She lost her one true love

And he lost his

With a bullet

To the chest

A life of crime

Is a long short road

Every moment filled

With dread

And never leaves much room

For love

In the shadows

Of its dead

Chorus

Mary climbs the Mercy bridge

Oer the water

Dark and cold

Shell wash away all her tears

In the waters healing flow

Chorus x 3

Oh Mary

Can't you see

It was not meant to be

He was born to dangle

Beneath the hanging tree