Two TrainsI've been circling in orbit around you since the day you were born or beforeWhat I couldn't see then you don't believe now As I wash up again on your shore Still, footprints of desperate longing fall like feathers up and down my street There among the remains a tale of two trains Never again to meet One for never, one for now Between the tracks I ran somehow Your outstretched hand was a wave good-bye We ride two trains that can't connect We just collide My love for you in your absence has grown certain and more complete Letting you go is like stopping the tide as it circles around my feet I'm paralyzed like that statue, who never shoulda tried to look back Frozen in love on a burning locomotive And smokin' on down the track One for never, one for now Between the trains I ran somehow Your outstretched hand was a wave good-bye We ride two trains that can't connect We just collide I have a childhood memory that hasn't left me yet I hear the night's refrain across the prairie silhouette Of a harmonica, some lonely hound Or a train from Saskatchewan to Quebec Now it don't mean nothin' 'cept the passing of time And two trains I can't forget |