Can't Ignore the Train - 10,000 Maniacs

Steep is the water tower

painted off blue to match the sky

can’t ignore the train

night walks in the valley silent

you could swear the earth just moved

can’t ignore the train

dust to be kicked up in the crack faced

idle sinister town

screen door to the rail station

devil in her shoe

ran along side the wasted tracks

hem pins darted her calves

can’t ignore the train

one spoiled girl with the tidiest apology

some how wedged inside her throat

can’t ignore the train

patience their virtue

but I never could abide by that

dungeon life with electric light

a clean towel and a basin

mantle figures mind their place

laughs where they belong

through adventure we are not adventuresome

rage to share with a wardrobe mirror

in a room so beige and cold

can’t ignore the train

window days saw the children pick their

street games on thirty afternoons

Molly the boys are

starting in the rhymic again

teasing more and more…

the second daughter

how she fell

young locked in Some Folk’s Prison

made to dwell

til they’re braiding

her grey hair

sitting in the wishing chair

sitting in the wishing chair

sitting in the wishing chair