Ezra Furman – Train Comes Through (Guitar)

       B
It's a quiet night on main street where the poisoned water runs

      B
It'll never be the same street when the time appointed comes

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It's talked about in whispers, nothing certain only rumor and clue

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But the violent sheet of silence will be shattered when the train comes through

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We may only be subordinates but we hear everything

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All your closed-door conversations we're always listening

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We sense frequencies you'd never hear or think to pay attention to

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And we can tell what's on its way here long before the train comes through

    B
The real news comes in flashes, here and there among the noise

      B
Borderland insurgent clashes with the local army boys

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Who think they've got a handle on the territory, for at least a year or two

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It'll be too late to get out of the way by the time the train comes through

     B
This city is the bearer of an old and secret curse

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It's not written in your bibles, it's a verse behind a verse

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Only visible to an obsessive detail-oriented heathen Jew

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But it's the hidden and unspoken that will thunder when the train comes through

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Yes, we labored and we built your dwellings here on the hillside

    B
The structures set in stone, not a chance they could slide

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But a great machine can break down suddenly if someone removes a tiny screw

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And the solid things will move in all directions when the train comes through

        B
They'll tell about your system as a system with no teeth

    B
The histories will name us as the people underneath

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The emptiness you'd only heard about was one we intimately knew

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But an emptiness is turned into a tunnel when a train comes through

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Ohh

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    Ahhh

       B
A transfiguration's coming, a turning in the song

       B
To the brutal static order they've depended on so long

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This train will carry gamblers it'll carry us midnight rambers too

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And a broken heart's your ticket so be ready when the train comes through

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A broken heart's your ticket so be ready when the train comes through

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Ahh

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Ahh