Night Train-Bruce Cockburn

[ti:Night Train] [ar:Bruce Cockburn] [al:Anything Anytime Anywhere] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Night Train - Bruce Cockburn [00:24.89]Not a knife throw from here [00:26.37]You can hear the night train passing [00:28.72] [00:30.90]That's the sound somebody makes [00:33.08]When they're getting away [00:34.50] [00:36.97]Leaving next week's hanging jury far behind them [00:40.61] [00:43.78]Prisoner only of the choices they have made [00:46.91] [00:47.79]Night train [00:50.34] [01:00.76]Night train [01:03.64] [01:13.59]Ice cube in a dark drink shines like starlight [01:17.38] [01:19.47]The moon is floating somewhere out at sea [01:23.39] [01:25.15]On an island in the blur of noise and color [01:29.44] [01:31.34]Alcatraz st Alina patmos and the chateau d'if [01:35.26] [01:36.32]Night train [01:38.67] [01:49.15]Night train [01:52.37] [02:01.94]Everyone's an island edged with sand [02:05.14] [02:07.84]A temporary refuge where somebody else can stand [02:11.63] [02:13.59]Till the sea that binds us [02:15.06]Like the forced tie of a blood oath [02:17.72] [02:19.94]Will wear it down dissolve it [02:22.27] [02:22.82]Recombine it [02:25.32] [02:57.09]Anyone can die here they do it every day [03:00.12] [03:02.89]It doesn't take much effort though it goes against the grain [03:05.93] [03:08.33]And the ultimate forget fulness of violence [03:12.24] [03:14.08]Sweeps the landscape like a headlight of a train [03:18.25] [03:19.26]Night train [03:22.90] [03:32.12]Night train [03:36.03] [03:44.88]Ice cube in a dark drink shines like starlight [03:48.68] [03:50.80]Starlight shines like glass shards in dark hair [03:54.15] [03:56.77]And the mind's eye tumbles out along the steel track [04:00.66] [04:03.00]Fixing every shadow with it's stare [04:06.72] [04:07.55]Night train [04:10.29] [04:20.40]Night train [04:24.43] [04:32.61]And in the absence of a vision there are nightmares [04:37.07] [04:38.48]And in the absence of compassion there is cancer [04:42.65] [04:44.80]Whose banner waves over palaces and mean streets [04:49.02] [04:50.60]And the rhythm of the night train is a mantra