Not a knife throw from here you can hear the night train passing

That's the sound somebody makes when they're getting away

Leaving next week's hanging jury far behind them

Prisoner only of the choices they've made



Night train



Ice cube in a dark drink shines like starlight

The moon is floating somewhere out at sea

On an island in the blur of noise and color

Alcatraz, St. Helena, Patmos and the Chateau D'If



Night train



And everyone's an island edged with sand

A temporary refuge where somebody else can stand

Till the sea that binds us like the forced tide of a blood oath

Will wear it down - dissolve it - recombine it



Anyone can die here they do it every day

It doesn't take much effort tho it goes against the grain

And the ultimate forgetfulness of violence

Sweeps the landscape like a headlight of a train



Night train



Ice cube in a dark drink shines like star light

Starlight shines like glass shards in dark hair

And the mind's eye tumbles out along the steel track

Fixing every shadow with its stare



Night train

Night train



And in the absence of a vision there are nightmares

And in the absence of compassion there is cancer

Whose banner waves over palaces and mean streets

And the rhythm of the night train is a mantra