I know the song makes references to a machine, specificaly a train. I know that pacific 231 is a work composed by Arthur Honegger in 1923 which is about a train (the work imitates the sounds of a steam locomotive). Anyways, I think this song is making a person or relationship out to be like a train wreck. the metaphor is that the "train" is sick from its own motion, as if it was not that great when it started but now it is even worse. But still (they) try and make it work.
I know the song makes references to a machine, specificaly a train. I know that pacific 231 is a work composed by Arthur Honegger in 1923 which is about a train (the work imitates the sounds of a steam locomotive). Anyways, I think this song is making a person or relationship out to be like a train wreck. the metaphor is that the "train" is sick from its own motion, as if it was not that great when it started but now it is even worse. But still (they) try and make it work.