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Train set and match spied under the blind
Shiny and contoured the railway winds
And I've heard the sound from my cousin's bed
The hiss of the train at the railway head
Always the summers are slipping away
A 60 ton angel falls to the earth
A pile of old metal, a radiant blur
Scars in the country, the summer and her
Always the summers are slipping away
Find me a way for making it stay
When I hear the engine pass I'm kissing you wide
The hissing subsides
I'm in luck
When the evening reaches here you're tying me up
I'm dying of love
It's OK
Dadaidadadada
Daddadadadadadadada
Daidadadaidadadai
Dadaidadadada
Dudududu
Daidadadaidadadai
When I hear the engine pass I'm kissing you wide
The hissing subsides
I'm in luck
When the evening reaches here you're tying me up
I'm dying of love
It's OK
Always the summers are slipping away
Find me a way for making it stay
Always the summers are slipping away
Always the summers are slipping away
Shiny and contoured the railway winds
And I've heard the sound from my cousin's bed
The hiss of the train at the railway head
Always the summers are slipping away
A 60 ton angel falls to the earth
A pile of old metal, a radiant blur
Scars in the country, the summer and her
Always the summers are slipping away
Find me a way for making it stay
When I hear the engine pass I'm kissing you wide
The hissing subsides
I'm in luck
When the evening reaches here you're tying me up
I'm dying of love
It's OK
Dadaidadadada
Daddadadadadadadada
Daidadadaidadadai
Dadaidadadada
Dudududu
Daidadadaidadadai
When I hear the engine pass I'm kissing you wide
The hissing subsides
I'm in luck
When the evening reaches here you're tying me up
I'm dying of love
It's OK
Always the summers are slipping away
Find me a way for making it stay
Always the summers are slipping away
Always the summers are slipping away
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Train set and match spied under the blind Shiny and contoured the railway winds And I've heard the sound from my cousin's bed The hiss of the train at the railway head
-- He's borrowing his cousin's bed, waiting for the arrival of a loved one by train. He can hear the train pull up from where he's sleeping.
Always the summers are slipping away
-- This has become a summer ritual.
A 60 ton angel falls to the earth A pile of old metal, a radiant blur
-- The train crashes? I don't know, this part is difficult to interpret. Train engines weigh far more than 60 tons usually, but I can't decide what else he could possibly be talking about.
Scars in the country, the summer and her
-- Train tracks cutting through the country, he spends the summers with a loved one.
Always the summers are slipping away Find me a way for making it stay
-- Pretty self-explanatory
When I hear the engine pass I'm kissing you wide The hissing subsides I'm in luck
-- He has just picked someone up at the station and is "kissing her wide" at the same time the train is taking off again. So when the hissing subsides, it's actually the noise from the train getting farther and farther away from the two of them.
When the evening reaches here You're tying me up I'm dying of love It's OK
-- So they go back to the bed he is borrowing from his cousin and when the evening reaches, they get it on. But the songwriter has since lost this particular person, and so the evening also means her death. When the evening reaches here, "you're tying me up". During the actual evenings together she would tie him to the bed, but her death has tied him to the train tracks. Either way, he's dying of/for her love. But ultimately he has accepted it and tried to move on.
i think of a boeing 707 crashing when he sings about the 60 ton angel falls to the earth - those are just about 60 tons. that too would create "scars in the country".<br /> <br /> especially in progressive rock, the lyrics are not always directly telling a story. in many cases, lyrics are used to paint a sonic picture, and don't always relate to a specific story line. i do like your interpretation though.
@Opeth69 All of this seems pretty correct save a few things. The 60 ton angel falling to the earth is really referring to the train coming down from the heavens as an angel in the form a train. There’s no tragic meaning to it at all. It’s like the pickup line “Did it hurt when you fell from heaven?”. The 60 tons is clearly the number he used to just make the lyrics flow better even if it isn’t accurate. But tying me up is just him expressing his deep love for this person. I don’t think there’s any ill meaning to this song. It’s just a nostalgia trip.