10000 Maniacs - Can’t Ignore The Train lyrics

[ music: john lombardo/lyric: natalie merchant ]<br><br><br>Steep is the water tower<br>Painted off blue to match the sky<br><br>Can't ignore the train<br><br>Night walks in the valley silent<br>You could swear the earth just moved<br><br>Can't ignore the train<br><br>Dust to be kicked up<br>In the crack faced<br>Idle sinister town<br>Screen door to the rail station<br>Devil in her shoe<br><br>Ran along side the wasted tracks<br>Hem pins darted her calves<br><br>Can't ignore the train<br><br>One spoiled girl with the tidiest apology<br>Some how wedged inside her throat<br><br>Can't ignore the train<br><br>Patience their virtue<br>But I never could abide by that<br>Dungeon life with electric light<br>A clean towel and a basin<br>Mantle figures mind their place<br>Laughs where they belong<br><br>Through adventure we are not adventuresome<br><br>Rage to share with a wardrobe mirror<br>In a room so beige and cold<br><br>Can't ignore the train<br><br>Window days saw the children pick their<br>Street games on thirty afternoons<br><br>Molly the boys are<br>Starting in the rhymic again<br>Teasing more and more....<br><br>The second daughter<br>How she fell<br>Young locked in some folk's prison<br>Made to dwell<br>Til they're braiding<br>Her grey hair<br><br>Sitting in the wishing chair<br>Sitting in the wishing chair<br>Sitting in the wishing chair