A Train Not Running

Chris Knight * Track #5 On The Jealous Kind

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Album The Jealous Kind

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Chris Knight

2003

A Train Not Running by Chris Knight

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Chris Knight

About

This song is told from the point of view of a former miner. The mines have closed up in his area and his prospects for gainful employment are few. Where you used to hear trains running carrying coal away he now hears silence; a constant reminder of his bleak financial situation.

A Train Not Running Lyrics

The sound of a train not running
Has been keeping me awake
The Westmoreland Mine ain't run much coal
Since back in '88
Got on at the sawmill
But I've got to find a better way
Or the sound of a train not running
Is gonna carry me away

[Chorus]
And every time you look at me, Mary
I want to tell you someday
We'll leave the sound of a train not running
A thousand miles away

I don't want to risk my freedom
Growing crops on company land
But it'd be a damned sight better
Than a government check in my hand
I used to bring home good money
You used to drive a decent car
But now we go to town on Saturday
It seems a little too far

[Chorus]
Now some nights when our baby cries
I feel a twinge of fear
When the sound of a train not running
Is the only thing I hear

[Chorus]

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