The Rooster Moans Lyrics

Lyric discussion by aopps42 

Cover art for The Rooster Moans lyrics by Iron & Wine

kyle, you need to add the next line as a continuation of that thought: "Jesus weeps, but he's been paid, not to ride this dusty train"

To me, the train is symbolic of a person or place that's inherently evil, or ill-willed. It has some type of connotation to me anyways of someone doing something terrible to a child, like abuse or exploitation. Something like that.