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The song part is sung by a homeless guy by the name of Ken. He sings to no music, and ends up forgetting the words.
“There was a hobo by the side of the freeway exit, he had a big beard and I just went down there with a tape recorder one day and started talking to him and we liked a lot of the same...
[Verse]
I'm an alien from another sphere
The thing I like about the earth is the range of colors
Fantastic to mundane. Brilliant to dull
As I was penetrating the ozone, I perchanced to notice the orange peel-like quality of the light playing upon the… The ocean
I gotta go right now; someone is videotaping me in my spaceship
All around, a water tank
Just a-waiting for a train
A thousand miles away from home
Just a-waiting for'n the rain
I walked up to a break-man
Just to give him a line of talk
He said, “if you got money
I'll see that you don't walk.”
“I haven't got a nickel;
Not a penny for to show.”
“Get off, get off, you railroad bum!”
And he slammed the boxcar door
They let me off in Texas
A state I dearly love
The moon, the stars above me… And what else?
Waitin’ For A Train was written by Jimmie Rodgers.
Waitin’ For A Train was produced by Gus Hudson & Tom Grimley & Beck.
Beck released Waitin’ For A Train on Tue Feb 22 1994.