Ghost Train - Gino Vannelli

Hear the train whistle blow rolling down the line

Come to rescue this heart of mine

Hear the rumble and roar of the moonlight express

Our one last chance at a better world than this

(All aboard)

A better world than this

(All aboard)

Every traveler sat silent as a stone

A lot like but not quite flesh and bone

Yet I would not be dulled or driven to fright

By a train of the lost souls in the half light

Then a voice

From a hooded robe

Of black

Whispered, «Pale to me, here we go

There ain’t no

Turning back»

«All aboard», cried the train guy

Make ready for your magic mountain ride

Say goodbye to the world down below us

Here’s your one-way ticket to the other side

All aboard, the ghost train

Drop all your trappings at the door

Wave goodbye to the boy in the window

You won’t be seeing him anymore

Whoa, oh, whoa, whoa

Like a bat outta hell we shot into space

While down below in the blue-green glow, I saw a weeping face

It was the face of a child that cut me to the bone

And I heard him say, «Don't go away, a-papa please come home»

Had no clue

As to who was crying

In the dark

But it hurt so bad

That I certainly had

A change of heart

«All aboard», cried the train guy

Make ready for your magic mountain ride

Say goodbye to the world down below us

Here’s your one-way ticket to the other side

All aboard, the ghost train

Drop all your trappings at the door

Wave goodbye to the boy in the window

You won’t be seeing him anymore

(All aboard)

Oh no no

(All aboard)

Oh no no, whoa, whoa

And so I left off the train, fell into my skin

Through mountains of Peru back to the land of the living

To a cottage in the woods into the arms of a woman

Who held my head to her belly and a-said, «We're gonna have a son»

(We're gonna have son)

Mmh, we’re gonna have son

(We're gonna have son)

All aboard

All aboard

All aboard

The ghost train