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Train Song

from Live at Grand Salon by Mike McMonagle

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Written on a train, about a train, and a town we need not ever go back to.

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The world moves sideways from where I'm sitting on this train
Left to right, where I left's not right for me
Counting stops, waiting for my exit to come
It's a sunny day, but they say it's raining at home.

Far away in a vacancy motel
There's a baby crying, the world's in a TV shell
Can't sleep in the daytime, at night no sleep will come
We haven't slept right, no, not since we left home.

But there ain't no sense in moving
Just to prove we're not so lame
But I'll die before I ask for more
Thank you just same.

Let's stay up all night and toast to ourselves
As long as there's track we're not going back to hell
There's liars and cheaters and leaders of wars to come
But we wouldn't know no better if only we'd just stayed home.

But there ain't no sense in moving
Just to prove we're not so lame
But I'll die before I ask for more
Thank you just same.

You can hear that train's whistle in the dead of night all through your bones.
You can hold your lover's hand but still feel so all alone
You might cross your heart but someday you'll hope to die
But you'll never say you never felt so free.

We've been traveling now since 2004
Got our hands in our pockets, we've been dreaming for so much more
Traveling 'round, from town to town, we've come
a long, long way just to say we're going back home.

But there ain't no sense in moving
Just to prove we're not so lame
But I'll die before I ask for more
Thank you just same.

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from Live at Grand Salon, released June 3, 2011
Mike McMonagle

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Mike McMonagle Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Mike McMonagle writes & performs songs that fall somewhere on the folk-roots-rock-n-roll spectrum. Born, raised and now residing in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, he uses his songcraft as a modest attempt at making good on his existence in this world.

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