Train to Miami is the second song off of Montana rock band Steel Pole Bath Tub’s fourth album The Miracle of Sound in Motion. The song is known for being featured in advertisements for Valve’s co-operative first-person shooter game Left 4 Dead.
The song is about an FBI agent who is on an assignment...
[Verse 1]
Left Chicago, left the filth
Hopped a boxcar, headed south
Lust with thirteen Siamese twins
Bought for science, kept for skin
Twenty souls touch themselves
Lord help them, I help myself
This is my circle of instant friends
(South to Christian lands)
[Chorus]
These are my friends now, these are my friends now
These are my friends now, these are my friends now
These are my friends now, these are my friends now
These are my friends now, these are my friends now
[Verse 2]
I'm on assignment for the FBI
Miami, Florida, child sacrifice
The swamp is deep and warm and old (I'm falling)
I think she loves me, I love her too
Satan brands, and homemade tattoos
You can't believe the things I've seen
(Thirty churches burning)
[Chorus]
These are my friends now, these are my friends now
These are my friends now, these are my friends now
These are my friends now, these are my friends now
These are my friends now, these are my friends now
[Instrumental Bridge]
[Verse 3]
We sit and drink all day now
We sit and drink all day now (Cinder block temple)
The sun beats down outside
And I can't think a better reason to-
Too late now
Too late to tell me what I have become
(We are becoming)
[Chorus]
These are my friends now, these are my friends now
These are my friends now, these are my friends now
These are my friends now, these are my friends now
These are my friends now, these are my friends now
[Instrumental Bridge]
[Outro]
I'm all alone in a big white house and
I'm all alone in a big white house and
(I fade)
Train to Miami was written by Mike Morasky.
Train to Miami was produced by Steel Pole Bath Tub & Eric Holland.
Steel Pole Bath Tub released Train to Miami on Mon May 10 1993.