Old Familiar Steam Lyrics by Old 97's

Old Familiar Steam Lyrics

    By the time you leave
    I'll be saving all my green
    For a homebound train to carry me
    On old familiar steam.

    I wish you'd hurry up,
    And leave or come around.
    Well the moon is waning hard tonight.
    I 'm leaving my home town.

    And the train rolls on with no pilot.
    And the station's left me i know.
    But if you should happen to find it,
    Please bring it home, bring it home.

    I traded all my stops
    For a pillow made of rails.
    In an empty room i listen to
    The lonely whistle wails.

    I woke up to feet,
    That i took to be your shoes,
    And the train lay tracks that deafened me,
    Shook my insides loose.

    And the train rolls on with no pilot,
    And the station's left me i know.
    But if you should happen to find it,
    Please bring it home, bring it home.

    And the point of all this living,
    Is the dying still to come.
    And i could be forgiven,
    But i just won't, i just won't.
    (cool don walser yodel & fade out)

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