This is the seventh song from Pedro The Lion’s fourth album, Achilles Heel. The song is about a man whose legs are chopped off by a North American transcontinental train.
[Verse 1]
Engine severs lower legs
I feel my bruised heart beating
Spinal cord remains intact
Still sending and receiving
[Verse 2]
Lying back on shoulder blades
The cargo rushing past
Missing limbs beneath the cars
Twitching on the tracks
Click clack, now handicapped
North AM transcontinental
[Verse 3]
I remember as I bleed
Certain tales of bravery
A man whose legs were trapped beneath
A fallen evergreen tree
He decided he would chop them off above the knee
Sacrifice his shins and feet to set his torso free
[Verse 4]
The luxury of having been spared the hard part
You'd think would be enough for me to pull this off
But I'm left to bleed to death
Now all the man I've ever been
North AM transcontinental
Transcontinental was written by David Bazan.
Pedro The Lion released Transcontinental on Wed May 25 2005.