No one can dispute the religious nature of this song...that's def. one meaning. If you listen closely, I think you can get a second meaning out of the song of drug addiction. The long black train and the devil are a person being addicted to alcohol and/or drugs.
"that train is a beauty making everybody stare
but its only destination is the middle of nowhere"
^People who abuse alcohol and drugs often glamourise their use, and think they're not doing anything wrong, and that "everybody's doing it." When in fact, addiction to even the most mild substances such as caffeine, is a sad sad thing, and that destination of that Long Black Train is indeed the middle of nowhere
No one can dispute the religious nature of this song...that's def. one meaning. If you listen closely, I think you can get a second meaning out of the song of drug addiction. The long black train and the devil are a person being addicted to alcohol and/or drugs.
"that train is a beauty making everybody stare but its only destination is the middle of nowhere"
^People who abuse alcohol and drugs often glamourise their use, and think they're not doing anything wrong, and that "everybody's doing it." When in fact, addiction to even the most mild substances such as caffeine, is a sad sad thing, and that destination of that Long Black Train is indeed the middle of nowhere
God helps those who help themselves