10,000 Maniacs — Can’t Ignore the Train

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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, she ran alongside the wasted tracks
Hem pins darted in her calves
Can’t ignore the train

One spoiled girl with the tidiest apology
Somehow 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
Mantel figures mind their places

And 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, thirty
Thirty afternoons

Molly, the boys are
Starting in that rhyme again
Teasing more and more the second daughter
How she fell

Young locked in some folks’ prison
Made to dwell
Till they’re braiding her gray hair
Sitting in the wishing chair

Sitting in the wishing chair
Sitting in the wishing chair