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Blind Train

from Age and Wonder by The Waxwings

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lyrics

Boy hit by train in Maryland
Walking home along the tracks one November afternoon
Walkman playing a tape, his new Rites of Spring LP
Sunset at his back, he was starin' straight ahead

Couldn't he feel the earth tremblin' at his feet?
Didn't he see the long shadow loomin'?

Blind Train, Blind Train
Blind Train come to take him away
Oh, did you know him? Did you see him that day?
Before the Blind Train come to take him away?

The next day at school the police were asking questions
About a possible suicide, but his friends all said no way

Word was getting around, pretty soon everybody knew
His presence never stronger, now that he was gone

And all our pent up teenage grief for innocence lost and the assault on our souls
Found focus for one cold moment in the death of one of our own

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The sun was going down
The evening commute had begun
Trains headed out of the District out toward Baltimore

We walked the tracks for hours
Til we came to the spot
A dozen or so punks were already there

Someone had a boombox
Someone lit a fire
We stood there sayin' nothing by an old tumbled down brick wall

And every time a train passed by we hurled those bricks as hard as we could
Shattered the windows and dented the sides, made the passengers jump back
After three or four trains like that, the cops showed up, everybody ran
Scattered into the night, it was over

Blind Train, Blind Train
Blind Train come to take us away
Oh, did you know us? Did you see us that day?
When the Blind Train come and took him away

credits

from Age and Wonder, track released August 8, 2011
written by Eric Schopmeyer
performed by the Waxwings
[Eric Schopmeyer/lead vocals, guitar; Adrienne Leverette/vocals, tenor ukulele; Kurt Weist/vocals, guitar; Mark Schopmeyer/banjo; Matt Marchyok/fiddle; Tony Jamesbarry/bass]
recorded and mixed by Kevin Nettleingham

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The Waxwings is a band of friends from Portland, OR. We take our diverse musical influences (classical, rock, folk, what have you) and channel them through acoustic instruments to unearth themes of love, loss and the pursuit of soul-searching redemption. ... more

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