Train sounds
The Glory Train
Down by the old train tracks in Glory, Mississippi
There is a man that walks alone
Almost every night when the moon is high
Waiting for a train..............
That never comes by.
Sometimes you can see him
Sometimes you can feel him
Sometimes you just know that he's there
Walking and weeping and crying like a baby
For the girl who had left him 'cause she didn't care.
They say he died there waiting for the train
To come back through and go searching for her
In the blast of a blizzard and the arms of the wind
He froze like a statue for the train had derailed
And neither he or that old train would be running again.
There are too many stories
That come out of Glory
And I haven't a clue if any are true
But I know this one is and that man's not a myth
And this is the story I'm telling to you.
I've seen him myself and that is the truth
When the night was quiet and the moon was full
A pale apparition with big ghostly eyes
Piercing the silence with his heartbroken moans
Walking and wailing like the poor man could die.
One night I walked there as I made my way home
Following the tracks in the cold December fog
Longing for warmth and the comfort of fire
Sad for myself and the love I had lost
Lost for my lips were the lips of a liar.
A coldness colder than deep winter's breath
Blew on my face and clutched at my arm
I froze where I stood like my cold feet were fused
For a man stood there holding.................
A ticket he'd never used.
I shook my head when he held out the ticket
Staring at him and not wanting to see
Then I turned to flee in my terror's mad grasp
Running away from my future
As he ran towards his past.
But then I stopped and turned to face him
Standing there waiting on those tracks of pure rust
Standing there waiting on those tracks of pure rust
His face was a see through mask of such pain
And in the distance in the darkness
We both heard the train.
It hadn't run in forty years
It hadn't existed since before I was born
It hadn't sounded that old whistle low
And how it ran then, I couldn't tell you
But the man caught the train and that's all that I know.
©By Voo
Oct 9, 08
2 a.m.
