It's so hard to listen to these trains

Outside my window here it comes again

And it's calling me begging me

Follow me down the track

And it moans so dark and low

Baby ain't comin' back



I refuse to believe

It could happen to me and you

It's lonesome and it's hard and it's true



It got this whiskey to take care of my lips

I got these long cool steel strings

At my fingertips

I ain't got nothing to soothe my aching soul

Except this screeching and screaming iron

To tell me where I ought to go



I refuse to believe

It could happen to me and you

It's lonesome and it's hard and it's true



I hear the train sigh

And idle down below

Why your love is so sweet and while

Is something I'll never know



It sounds like crying

It sounds like letting go

Breathing and lying

Sinking and dying slow

And I watch from my window

Touching the cold glass sky

As the train rolls down the track

I say goodbye