Sunday, 10 November 2013

Night Trains


Night Trains
(words & music by Chris Stanley)

 
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F                                                              C
From a hill I watch the night trains
Bb                                           C/G
Rush into the darkness
F                                                    C       Bb     C/G
There for just one moment of time
Freight cars disappearing just like the friends I lost
Tearing through the heartlands, beating down the line
 
        C                      Bb Bb/A  Bb Bb/A
One day I want to ride that train
        C                      Bb Bb/A  Bb Bb/A
One day I want to feel that way again
       Bb    C                             F       C     Bb
But nothing lasts like the lies of a friend
                                                                                C                      F
Where the day is just a memory and the night has no end
 
She travelled north from Texas to the great plains of Nebraska
When the courts denied her stepfather bail
I took her out to Lone Tree where it overlooks the river
And watched those night trains snake through the hills
 
(chorus)
 
     Dm                                             C   
We walked every road in this one sideshow town
Bb                                           C
Promised forever we’d never look back
                Dm                                         C
Through movies and music and nights in the park
     Bb                                                C
It seemed we were flying and falling and rising
Dm                                         Bb
Together and never to part
Dm                                                 C                                            Bb
Together like sunshine we’d light up the dark in this town
                                                C                                             F
While our souls and our hearts were on the night trains
 
I saw the way she looked at him and I knew that she was leaving
Her letter said she was never coming back
And God I miss those evenings, dreaming we were something
Now there’s just a pale moon and a thousand miles of track
One day I’m gonna ride that train
One day I want to see your face again
But nothing lasts like the lies of a friend
It’s like riding on the night train when the night has no end

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