Jonah Tolchin Rocks & Nails
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
Chorus:
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
