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Night Train To Lorca Lyrics
Across the dark and dusty plain
Where scars of old dry rivers run
Night unfolds, a coal black shroud
Across the hard and stony ground
Distant stars shining bright
In the cavern of the night
All is still and silence screams
To the thunder of the Lorca train
Flaming steel swift as wind
Wires hum the rails ring
Smokestack burning fiery sparks
Rise up to the stars
Towns asleep by empty roads
Churches rise from crooked roofs
Cloaked in darkness nothing stirs
Grow smaller darker disappear
See the moon so still and cold
A million stars that shed no warmth
Your nightmares all come out to play
In the silver light
Wait for sunrise in the east
Long shadows crawl across the plain
The ghosts of night will disappear
And lay your fears to rest
Steam hissed up, the hot coals glowed
The furnace blazed, the wheels they rolled
On tracks of iron, straight and cold
The silver moonlight danced
The flames are in the fireman's eye
Orange in the engines glow
Gleaming pistons whirling cranks
Wait for dawn the rooster's crow
Where scars of old dry rivers run
Night unfolds, a coal black shroud
Across the hard and stony ground
In the cavern of the night
All is still and silence screams
To the thunder of the Lorca train
Wires hum the rails ring
Smokestack burning fiery sparks
Rise up to the stars
Churches rise from crooked roofs
Cloaked in darkness nothing stirs
Grow smaller darker disappear
A million stars that shed no warmth
Your nightmares all come out to play
In the silver light
Wait for sunrise in the east
Long shadows crawl across the plain
The ghosts of night will disappear
And lay your fears to rest
The furnace blazed, the wheels they rolled
On tracks of iron, straight and cold
The silver moonlight danced
Orange in the engines glow
Gleaming pistons whirling cranks
Wait for dawn the rooster's crow
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A fantastic song. It reminds me of a cross between Turkish Song of the Damned, Lullaby of London and Sit Down by the Fire, all perfect songs in their own right. And it's even written by Jem Finer, not Shane like you'd guess.
With a dash of Broad Majestic Shannon and London You're A Lady, in the sense that the narrator's trying to reassure someone that the present sad state of things is temporary and things will get better.
With a dash of Broad Majestic Shannon and London You're A Lady, in the sense that the narrator's trying to reassure someone that the present sad state of things is temporary and things will get better.