Steel Train

So long since I've seen your eyes and I
Am finding out how to get by without you
I walk these streets with a lonely sky
And baby I get by
But it was you all along

Blue had you too
I lied for you
And nothing can be real till you can feel

I walk your street with a lonely sky
And baby I get high about you
Time will pass and I lose my worth
Tonight it hurts
And you can run fast like the wind

I walk these streets with a lonely sky and baby I get by
But it was you everyday
Blue had you too
Lied for you
And nothing can be real when without you I cannot feel

And I'd rather watch a sunset
Through cellophane and glass
And as just what we find
So why you gotta rock the boat?
Aint it time for you to choke?
My love
Only you're up here for me
So keep one eye open
What you see ain't what you got

I sold my hay to a man with a master plan
To run the world that I ran from
Last time I left you
This time I'm leaving true
In a quest to lose it all
And for a stairwell

Even these empty hands
Can hold the way to your promise land
And my soul, mind, and body will render the crime
So why you gotta be so cruel?
Uou used me like a tool
It'll never fix our love
No no

I know that it's time
To give it all up
When it all so corrupt
And im torn from childhood lust
Time sublime when pain's a rhyme
I know you thought them stars were lined for you
But beauty is my love

So keep one eye open
Keep that eye open
Keep them eyes open
Cause what you see ain't what you
It aint what you got

I dig a girl who's on her own
Smiles at the lonely folk
Cause she's got nothing figured out

I laugh
Cause I don't wanna cry no more
I laugh because I hit the floor
Wiping stains from the bullets of a bang

And when you're down and out of touch
I'll be waiting at that dock
The storm will clear and your ship will come to town
And when the tides don't go your way
And the sun don't shine for days
Which someday I will make her free
And scarlet you had a real friend in me

Love
Is lying in the strangest place
Is crying cause it has no face
Faces is the pain inside my gut

And I dig
The girl who sang me lullabys
Let me kiss her tired eyes
Tired I have been since she's gone

And when you're down and out of touch
I'll be waiting at that dock
The storm will clear and your ship will come to town
And when the tides don't go your way
And the sun don't shine for days
We're singing our way to FLA
You know I had a real friend in you

And when you're down and out of touch
I'll be waiting at that dock
The storm will clear and your ship will come to town
And when the tides don't go your way
And the sun don't shine for days
Well don't you worry, girl
I've been there. I've been around
If you're lost, I'll be found
Between us
Oh, my scarlet you had a real friend in me

i'm big, and small
it hurts to crawl
this velvet aisle again
and their eyes feast
on my deceased
they hold the cherry of my pit

come please and fel my deceased
i know you walk aside your child
and her eyes closed, soul rose
earth will patch the cracks within
i dig a hole for all my sins

big, small
a pain inside you all
will touch your spine when i give in
and grace falls
13 years to tall
i once walked aside my child
but i left him on a velvet aisle

Well i ran through the river of pride and shame
i didn't even know the game
so frame a portrait of the way
the path that twists around the gypsy waves
oh it can
slip right through your hands
when you list your demands
ohh the price you pay
walking in the flames

find, your wave
and sail away today
your actions claim
your soul

can you dance on the edge of your time?
can i rise to the changes from the cages i've been living inside?

so frame a portrait of the way
the path that twists around the gypsy waves
oh it can
slip right through your hands
when you list your demands
ohh the price you pay
walking in the flames

find your wave
and sail away today
my actions claim
and the sky will fall in my name
did i not write these words
in a time to leave again
take it to forget you

Dreams seem incomplete between your sheets
Ohh I walk this mile to see you child
And I will stay here
And fall in love with you

I want to rest tonight but ohh I fight
The truth that's in my way that I can't stay.

When I was a little kid,
My father told me to see the world for him
So I took my things
And painted big sunsets from the vast oceans

Send your dad a note. You made it, kid. You're on the road.
Send your dad a note. You made it, kid. You're on the road.

Mother, teach me about the country
Can you tell the lies from the lives that you've seen (?)
Now Mother, can you tell me
Where this road is gonna lead

Just let yourself go and sell your soul to the road
Just let yourself go and sell your soul to the road

Don't you know that I was resting under the track(s) (?)
But even then I always knew I'd be back (?)
Cause I know that my steel train
I'll ride it to the end

The skies and desert rain
Have passed my life by the course of steel train
And I'll ride to the end of the rails
I'd tell my father of all my tales

I said everything I saw, I'm singing, "I love you"
and the reason that we're here all because of you

Don't you know that I was resting under the track(s) (?)
But even then I always knew I'd be back (?)
You know that I know that my steel train
I'll ride it till the end
You know that I know that my steel train
I'll ride it till the end
And I know that my steel train...

So she walks on her way
To believe her words
And she smiles at me but it's a lie
Cause if the sand don't run through your toes it's no paradise to me
And if you're such a believer then believe everything you breathe

And you don't know and you don't laugh on your way
Do you stumble while you play?
Oh sunshine on my back and I'm with you the day
That you let me go of your fame

Don't let your conscience
Find another way
And don't let believers bleed beneath the day

Wake your eyes cause the world's still turning around the love that we built
Called in sick 'cause I spent the night dreaming loud the time she was ill
And I'm running so far from this guilt

And the weeks they just pass and it's easy to guess why I miss them
There are colors inside that I can not find the words for
And the reason we're here, it has never shined clear like the water
So don't pass me by
Yeah

All my time is in rhyme 'cause I live in a dream where she can be free
I set myself to the side and I'll watch as the lives pass as I sleep
Oh it doesn't mean I can't believe

And the weeks they just pass and it's easy to guess why I miss them
There are colors inside that I can not find the words for
And the reason we're here, it has never shined clear like the water
So don't pass me by

All I see is the girl that bleeds in the dark but no one's around
Takes her time 'cause her beauty's in rhyme with her soul, flys like the dove
And no one can tell who to love

And the weeks they just pass and it's easy to guess why I miss them
There are colors inside that I can not find the words for
And the reason we're here, it has never shined clear like the water
So don't pass me by

(echoing Oh's)

Wake your eyes cause the world's still turning around the love that we built
Called in sick 'cause I spent the night dreaming loud the time she was ill

(Wake your eyes) Wake your eyes
(Wake your eyes) Wake your eyes. Wake your eyes. Wake your eyes
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(Wake your eyes) Wake your eyes. Wake your eyes. Wake your eyes