December Train Home Lyrics

Snow falls soft on iron rails

Against the window, winter wails

Steam rises in the station light

My breath clouds memories tonight

Red scarf wrapped against the cold

As this old train starts to roll

December train rolling through the night

Past small towns glowing Christmas bright

Every mile brings me closer now

To where the porch light burns somehow

Like it did so long ago

Through curtains of December snow

Pages turn in stranger's books

Children flash me sleepy looks

Their mothers hum sweet lullabies

While darkness fills the mountain skies

The conductor's shadow stands

With silver watch in weathered hands

December train rolling through the night

Past small towns glowing Christmas bright

Every mile brings me closer now

To where the porch light burns somehow

Like it did so long ago

Through curtains of December snow

These metal wheels on endless track

Bring memories that whistle back

To where the tinsel catches light

And mama's cookies scent the night

Where dad still trims the tree with care

And saves the star for when I'm there

Through windows veiled in silver frost

Each mile brings back something lost

My heart beats time to steel wheels' sway

While Christmas lights mark out the way

The whistle sounds through starlit skies

As home's warm glow fills up my eyes

December train rolling through the night

Past small towns glowing Christmas bright

Every mile brings me closer now

To where the porch light burns somehow

Like it did so long ago

Through curtains of December snow