Night Train-Bruce Cockburn

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[00:00.00]Night Train - Bruce Cockburn
[00:24.89]Not a knife throw from here
[00:26.37]You can hear the night train passing
[00:30.90]That's the sound somebody makes
[00:33.08]When they're getting away
[00:36.97]Leaving next week's hanging jury far behind them
[00:43.78]Prisoner only of the choices they have made
[00:47.79]Night train
[01:00.76]Night train
[01:13.59]Ice cube in a dark drink shines like starlight
[01:19.47]The moon is floating somewhere out at sea
[01:25.15]On an island in the blur of noise and color
[01:31.34]Alcatraz st Alina patmos and the chateau d'if
[01:36.32]Night train
[01:49.15]Night train
[02:01.94]Everyone's an island edged with sand
[02:07.84]A temporary refuge where somebody else can stand
[02:13.59]Till the sea that binds us
[02:15.06]Like the forced tie of a blood oath
[02:19.94]Will wear it down dissolve it
[02:22.82]Recombine it
[02:57.09]Anyone can die here they do it every day
[03:02.89]It doesn't take much effort though it goes against the grain
[03:08.33]And the ultimate forget fulness of violence
[03:14.08]Sweeps the landscape like a headlight of a train
[03:19.26]Night train
[03:32.12]Night train
[03:44.88]Ice cube in a dark drink shines like starlight
[03:50.80]Starlight shines like glass shards in dark hair
[03:56.77]And the mind's eye tumbles out along the steel track
[04:03.00]Fixing every shadow with it's stare
[04:07.55]Night train
[04:20.40]Night train
[04:32.61]And in the absence of a vision there are nightmares
[04:38.48]And in the absence of compassion there is cancer
[04:44.80]Whose banner waves over palaces and mean streets
[04:50.60]And the rhythm of the night train is a mantra