Ghost Train

duuuude this song ROCKS!!! it thumps too! get some good bass in ur car and listen to it!

Here's the lyrics from gorillaz-unofficial:

Here they come to steal my soul (Ghost train) Wait it out until I know (Ghost train) Trying not to feel I give it (Ghost train) Moving up until I go go go (Ghost train)

She was not to hear about me leaving (Ghost train) Trying to be near my heart (Ghost train) Trying not to feel like bleeding (Ghost train) Moving up until I'm taught to your side (Ghost train)

Yeah yeah yeah (Ghost train)

Got suicide for my baby (Ghost train) Living up until I wanted (Ghost train) Seeing like I'm out of bed, yeah (Ghost train) Moving up and taught I'm a weapon (Ghost train)

Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah (Ghost train) Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah (Ghost train)

I see myself pretend how to get there (Ghost train) Dripping down, I'm poisoned on the street (Ghost train)

Come on come on come on! (Ghost train) Come on come on come on! (Ghost train)

Got suicide for my baby (Ghost train) Living up until I wanted (Ghost train) Seeing like I'm out of bed, yeah (Ghost train) Moving up and taught I'm a weapon (Ghost train)

Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah (Ghost train) Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah (Ghost train)

I see myself pretend how to get there (Ghost train) Dripping down, I'm poisoned on the street (Ghost train)

[Deep vocal, heavy reverb, incomprehensible]

Come on come on come on! (Ghost train) Come on come on come on! (Ghost train)

This is one of the most fuckin awesome song i've ever heard

I agree.. Does sound a lot like that sort of thing. I like how the beat kind of represents the steady pace of a train, and it's quite dark and depressing.. I feel I'm talking crap.. oh well.. lol.

I think its a convoy or somthing like that. Think of it in an abstract sense....sortof... HMMWVs and M1s in a line could be a sort of train. Soldiers stacked up outside a building, or moving in formation down a street could be a train of muscle

Here they come to steal my soul Wait it out until I know Trying not to feel I give it Moving up until I go go go (Hes waiting for the ones theyre gonna mow down "here THEY come to steal my soul". Theyre trying to kill him, or them, an enemy. Theyre trying to keep cool and calm, tension rising until they 'go'.)

She was not to hear about me leaving Trying to be near my heart Trying not to feel like bleeding Moving up until I'm taught to your side (He flashes back to thoughts of home, a female was not to know he was leaving but found out, tried to appeal to him emotionally, not to go, and tried to keep him home, to keep from being hurt. In the last line hes thinking hes gonna fight through all this, run though all this just to get back to her. Im thinking "taught" as in tight or close in this case)

Got suicide for my baby (Ghost train) Living up until I wanted (Ghost train) Seeing like I'm out of bed, yeah (Ghost train) Moving up and taught I'm a weapon (Ghost train) (He could revert to his new baby of the present. His rifle. Got suicide for my baby basically says in a bravado that anyone one the wrong side of her is dead, its fool hardy to be there, its suicide for them to even try, hes giving their deaths to her. Living up until I wanted, they die at his will. With his baby, they live until he wanted them to. He sees everything like he got out of bed, all blurry-like. Theyre chipping away at the enemy, using what theyre indoctrinated with "Theyre weapons" in that they are cold, precise, killing machines)

I see myself pretend how to get there (Ghost train) Dripping down, I'm poisoned on the street (Ghost train) (At this point its just muscle memory, training has taken over, its really just not even human anymore, evil has been dehumanized through their lack of emotion.)

Come on come on come on! (Ghost train) Come on come on come on! (Ghost train)

(His bravado, kinda like that scene in Full Metal Jacket where the door gunner keeps yelling "get some!"

[repeat] The song just emphasizes that he is dehumanized. He is a killer. Kinda a scary parallel to Marines as thats what theyre told to think like. Maybe thats what hes supposed to be.

this song sounds like one of those old guys standing alone on train trakcs singing about crazy spirirts that huant the trains. (god what am i talking about?)

I ABSOLUTELY love the say this song "moves". It really feels like we're on a train or something.

I think this song is deeper than I can grasp, but what I get from it at the moment is that its about a "Ghost Train" (obviously) and said train has come to take the souls of the dead away.

He talks about having "suicide for his baby", maybe meaning that he wants her to come ride the train with him. Then says "Living up until I want it", maybe meaning living until you're ready to die, or ready to take a ride on the train.

The "Dreamin' down a poison ivy tree" has got me really confused though =^\

The vocals are generally hard to understand in this song. So dreamin' down a poison ivy tree could infact be something else.

ehhmmm...i think is Rise of the Ogre the gorillaz said that it represented some kind of choir...but...

this song is really. dark. it means a lot of things.