Downbound Train Country Life-Steve Knightley

[00:06.84]Yeah [00:07.14] [00:13.84]I had a job I had a girl [00:17.32]I had something going mister in this world [00:21.24]I got laid off down at the lumber yard [00:24.94]Our love went bad times got hard [00:28.88]Now I work down at the car wash [00:32.60]Where all it ever does is rain [00:36.23]Don't you feel like you're a rider on a downbound train [00:45.16]She just said Joe I gotta go [00:48.78]We had it once we ain't got it anymore [00:52.57]She packed her bags left me behind [00:56.34]She bought a ticket on the Central Line [01:00.27]Nights as I sleep I hear that whistle whining [01:03.45]I hear her voice in the misty rain [01:07.38]Don't it feel like I'm a rider on a downbound train [01:17.83]Uuurh uuuurh [01:22.81] [01:29.70]Last night I heard your voice [01:32.84]You were crying crying you were so alone [01:36.80]You said your love had never died [01:40.52]You were waiting for me at home [01:43.93]I put on my shirt I put on the jacket [01:47.57]I ran till I thought my chest would explode [01:51.39]There in the moonlight beyond the highway [01:55.36]In the clearing our wedding house shone [01:58.57]I rushed through the yard [02:00.35]I ran to the front door my head pounding hard [02:03.63]Up the stairs I climbed [02:05.90]The room was dark our bed was empty [02:09.94]Then I heard that long whistle whine [02:15.62]And I dropped to my knees hung my head and cried [02:22.80]Now I swing a sledge hammer on a railroad gang [02:26.46]Knocking down them cross ties working in the rain [02:30.32]Don't it feel like you're a rider on a downbound train [02:41.77] [03:00.85]Working in the rain cutting down wood [03:04.44]Didn't do my little brother much good [03:08.08]Lost two fingers ina chainsaw bite [03:11.76]All he does now is drink and fight [03:15.29]Sells a bit of grass hots up cars [03:18.90]Talks of travel never gets far [03:22.66]Loves his kids left his wife [03:26.01]An everyday story of country life [03:35.80]And the red brick cottage where I was born [03:39.71]Is the empty shell of a holiday home [03:43.64]Most of the year there's no-one there [03:47.09]The village is dead and they don't care [03:50.95]Now we live on the edge of town [03:54.52]Haven't been back since the pub closed down [03:58.05]One man's family pays the price [04:01.38]For another man's visio of country life [04:10.47]I'm singing alone [04:18.37]In a mile my old man is eighty four [04:22.90]His generation won the war [04:25.89]But he left the farm forever when [04:29.67]They only kept on one in ten [04:33.47]Landed gentry county snobs [04:37.04]Where were you when they lost their jobs [04:40.62]No-one marched or subsidised [04:44.15]To save a country way of life [04:48.47] [04:53.47]I'm singing alone [05:00.93]But if you want cheap food well here's the deal [05:05.00]Family farms are brought to heel [05:08.54]Hammer blows of size and scale [05:12.74]Foot and mouth the final nail [05:15.63]The coffin of our English dream [05:19.42]It's out there on the village green [05:22.80]While agri-barons CAP in hand [05:26.55]Strip this green and pleasant land [05:29.90]Of meadow woodland hedgerow pond [05:33.95]What remains gets built upon [05:38.05] [06:14.35]Oh oh oh oh(歌手讲述) [06:26.43]What went wrong [06:30.02]Country life [06:34.08]It's a little bit of country life [06:40.07]I had a job I had a girl [06:45.03]Something going mister in this world singing boy [06:51.42]I got laid off down at the lumber yard [06:56.08]Times hard now country life [07:03.24](歌手讲述)Oh oh oh oh [07:09.99]Uh oh oh [07:16.23]I'm singing I'm singing country life [07:28.62] [07:39.65]A downbound train [07:47.43]A little bit of country life [07:52.07]