Train Town

from Tattered Map by Michael Sessoms

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"Train Town"

Whistle blows, the brakeman screams against the tracks
People pass on through but they never look back
And it's hard to be a switchman's son
When everyone you meet here wants to run
The only work in this town
Are the few railroad jobs on that freight yard ground
So one day when I come of age I'm gonna go

And I'll leave this train town and I won’t look back
I've spent my whole life on this one-way track
Gonna catch that outbound, see what I can find
And I'll try to leave the past and this train town
Behind

Grandpa shoveled coal on the old steam lines
Now Daddy switches rails when the trains come in to sight
So I guess the only job for me
Is a brakeman working under a conductor's lead
But I won't be tied down
The trains leaving here have to be somewhere bound
So one day when I come of age I'm gonna go

And I'll leave this train town and I won’t look back
I've spent my whole life on this one-way track
Gonna catch that outbound, see what I can find
And I'll try to leave the past and this train town behind

Gonna leave this train town
I've spent my whole life on this one-way track
Gonna catch that outbound
And I'll try to leave the past and this train town
Behind
Leave it behind

Written by Michael Sessoms • Copyright © Skeptic Ear Music

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from Tattered Map, released October 15, 2013

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