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The Train, the Drink, and the Dawn

from The Year of Getting By by Kill County

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I hail from Maryland, the Yankee son of white trash kin
but as a boy things look fine from the rented house through the broken blinds
Daddy was a welder till the union broke and momma fell ill
So I signed on as a man to be a poor boy in a poor land

The G I checks never came through, you give them four years and all the give you
Is a few dead friends, a few good lies, a thousand yards for your eyes.
till you're broke down in a train yard, I never was bound to get far
Hey Lincoln Nebraska, I could use a friend right now.

Because there's blood lines, Amphetamines and whiskey
And there's tears and there's iron, and there's pills please
There's dark dreams of days that lay beyond
All the trains, the drink, and the dawn

Well friend please don't blame me none, a man in my shoes was bound to run
To any train yard or rail line, a forty five or cheap wine.
And I can't build no home you know at her brother's house in Ohio
But I could use a friend right now.

The sun was shinin'. And in the morning light I saw the Autumn dying
Knowing, that winter was coming, I knew right then I could never see another one.
There was a little black train just rolling bye, and I ran her down and caught her on the fly.
So good bye, fair thee well, good bye.

Well if you know the way I roll, then you'll know the way I'll go.
And friend don't blame the gun, there's no need to mourn me none.
There's little birds and pretty things, and a better man he might find change.
But as for me, just bury me beneath, the cedars and the pine, the sun and all her shine,
And safe there I'll stay, with the wreckage and the waste,
and the dark dreams of days that lay beyond
all the trains, the drink, and the dawn.

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from The Year of Getting By, released August 30, 2010

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