Downbound Train-The Smithereens

[ti:Downbound Train] [ar:The Smithereens] [al:Anthology: From Jersey It Came] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Downbound Train - The Smithereens [00:15.12]I had a job I had a girl [00:18.25] [00:18.96]Had something going mister in this world [00:22.13] [00:22.93]I got laid off down at the yard [00:26.15] [00:26.84]Our love went bad times got hard [00:30.03] [00:31.00]Now I work down at the car wash [00:34.60] [00:35.44]Where all it ever does is rain [00:37.95] [00:38.90]Don't you feel like you're a rider [00:42.73]On a downbound train [00:45.72] [00:46.35]She just said "Joe I gotta go [00:49.63] [00:50.30]We had it once we ain't got it anymore" [00:54.25]She packed her bags left me behind [00:57.42] [00:58.10]She bought a ticket on the Central Line [01:01.42] [01:02.07]Nights as I sleep [01:03.54]I hear that whistle whining [01:05.77] [01:06.38]I feel her kiss in the misty rain [01:09.19] [01:10.24]And I feel like I'm a rider [01:14.14]On a downbound train [01:17.22] [01:33.85]Last night I heard your voice [01:36.67] [01:37.42]You were cry crying oh so alone [01:40.80] [01:41.65]Said your love had never died [01:44.79] [01:45.41]You were waiting for me at home [01:48.67] [01:49.40]Put on my jacket ran through the woods [01:52.57] [01:53.18]Ran 'til I thought my chest would explode [01:56.58] [01:57.27]There in the clearing beyond the highway [02:01.01]In the moonlight our wedding house shone [02:05.07]I rushed through the yard [02:06.92]I burst through the front door [02:08.90]Head pounding hard up the stairs I climbed [02:12.66]The room was dark our bed was empty [02:16.80]Then I heard that long whistle whine [02:21.05]And I dropped to my knees [02:24.08]Hung my head and cried [02:27.15] [02:28.87]Now I swing a sledgehammer [02:32.04] [02:33.23]Working in the pouring rain [02:35.71] [02:36.34]Now don't it feel like you're a rider [02:40.51]On a downbound train