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Song for Leaving Lyrics
Like a southbound train
Here's a song for leaving
Don't you know the pain
It's a part of the healing
Moon with a halo
Like a pearl in a peasant's hand
Religion on the radio
Advertising a promised land
Everything that attaches
Someday falls apart
When the plan collapses
It can break your heart
Like a southbound train
This is a song for leaving
Don't you know the pain
It's a part of the healing
Like a southbound train
Here is a song for leaving
Don't you know the pain
It's a part of the healing
To the airport in the rain
Sadness seeping through
Leaving faith on a jet plane
Hurling through the blue
Love is the tear
That taught me to fall
Whispered in my ear
Soothing me to my soul
Like a southbound train
Here's a song for leaving
Don't you know the pain
It's a part of the healing
Quiet constellations
I don't walk through the night
Silent salutations
Under a southwestern sky
Battlegrounds behind me
Smoke in the trees
Memories to remind me
Puts my soul to ease
Like a southbound train
Here's a song for leaving
Don't you know the pain
It's a part of the healing
Like a southbound train
This is a song for leaving
Don't you know the pain
It's a part of the healing
This is a train
Get on the train
Get on the train
Here's a song for leaving
Don't you know the pain
It's a part of the healing
Like a pearl in a peasant's hand
Religion on the radio
Advertising a promised land
Someday falls apart
When the plan collapses
It can break your heart
This is a song for leaving
Don't you know the pain
It's a part of the healing
Like a southbound train
Here is a song for leaving
Don't you know the pain
It's a part of the healing
Sadness seeping through
Leaving faith on a jet plane
Hurling through the blue
That taught me to fall
Whispered in my ear
Soothing me to my soul
Here's a song for leaving
Don't you know the pain
It's a part of the healing
I don't walk through the night
Silent salutations
Under a southwestern sky
Smoke in the trees
Memories to remind me
Puts my soul to ease
Here's a song for leaving
Don't you know the pain
It's a part of the healing
Like a southbound train
This is a song for leaving
Don't you know the pain
It's a part of the healing
This is a train
Get on the train
Get on the train
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Submitted by
songmeanings On Feb 06, 2012
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This HAS to be one of my favorite Brett Dennen songs. He is my all time favorite artist and I could listen to his music all day. Its just so emotional and beautiful and I love everything about it. anywayyyy.... My first interpretation is I think this song is about someone who has to leave their loved ones. Weather its their partner or their family. And how sometimes when you leave it makes you appreciate people more. You realize how much you truly love them when you don't have them with you all the time.
My second interpretation is that there was a brake up and the person has to leave because everything remind them of their past lover. And that leaving is a "part of the healing." "Part of the healing" really makes me think that its about a brake up. because you need to heal after a break up usually. Its kind of a sad song but yet hopeful and beautiful. This song also makes me think about kids leaving for college. Im leaving my family for a trip to Europe for three weeks this summer and it makes me think of how i have to leave them but ill be a more mature and experienced person when i come back.