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Leaving Train Lyrics
The finest silver needle
Shouldn't ever slide between
When lovers stand as parting friends
Gonna put myself on a leaving train
And I won't come back again
I could wait 'til morning
If it don't come down today
A dime says I won't be satisfied
Gonna put myself on a leaving train
And I won't come back again
The words that go unspoken
On the corner of the sun
And the cooling air of the evening shade
And the breathless house on the sleeping plain
And the last taillight on the leaving train
And I won't come back again
And I won't come back again
Shouldn't ever slide between
When lovers stand as parting friends
Gonna put myself on a leaving train
And I won't come back again
If it don't come down today
A dime says I won't be satisfied
Gonna put myself on a leaving train
And I won't come back again
On the corner of the sun
And the cooling air of the evening shade
And the breathless house on the sleeping plain
And the last taillight on the leaving train
And I won't come back again
And I won't come back again
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Submitted by
smallwonderrobot On May 29, 2011
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I LOVE this song, one of my favorite Gillian Welch songs - I looked up these lyrics on another site and some lyrics were different.
Instead of 'And the breathless hours, on the sleeping plane' it said it was
"And the breathless house, on the sleeping plain"
And I much prefer the latter, I think it makes a lot more sense.