Waiting For A Train Lyrics

Waiting for A Train

Ten more miles of walking down the road today

Ten more miles of living on a song

Ten more miles of wishing it was yesterday

Ten more miles it seems so long

Nine more distant souls that need a rope to climb

Nine more people tired of my face

Nine more alphabets that have no place to rhyme

Nine more miles from that place

Eight more porters standing on the platform today

Eight more cigarettes upon the floor

Eight more trains arrive before the one that will stay

Eight more miles what's the score?

Seven stranded sailors all in suits of silk

Seven simple Simons by the Seine

Seven seasick salamanders slurping milk

Seven miles where's the train?

Six more tickets sold before the train arrived

Six more anxious passengers await

Six more minutes before six men contrived

Six more miles and it's getting late

Five more times I'll tell you that I'm not afraid

Five more times my love will be denied

Five more cigarettes and a Gatorade

Five more miles well I never lied

Four distinguished guests are swapping childhood lies

Four for four they rearrange the past

Four more trains the boxcars lay heavy on your eyes

Four more miles in a cast

Three the holy number cast in iron and steel

Three the moon is closing down the sky

Three the respirator has to come get real

Three more miles and I'm wondering why

Two young lovers parking by the tracks tonight

But two remains the number of their lives

A pair of drunken hobo's by the campfire light

Two more miles and it arrives

One more train the pretty women twitch and sigh

One more train they're finally getting home

One more railroad tie to cross before I die

One more mile one mile to roam

So here it is the music plays in fire and steam

Laughing like seed aloft at birth

Worth the wait?

Well maybe not quite that extreme

Here it is

What is it worth?

One less life the world has willed to sing the blues

One less rock and roller one less gun

One more song about a man who paid his dues

One more mile Roy Orbison

Ten more miles of walking down the road today

Ten more miles of living on a song

Ten more miles of wishing it was yesterday

Ten more miles well it seems so long

Yeah it seems so long