Time Run Like a Freight Train

Outside the rain is falling

The doorway's all I fill

With all whose lives just move so slow

Leaving only space to fill

The rain is making patterns now

On my window sill

Of those who never asked to die

And were too afraid to kill

Time, run like a freight train

Won't you take me down the line?

So much I can never say

Of the ruins left behind

Oh, my pockets, they are empty

There's so much on my mind

Time, run like a freight train

Take me down the line

But Lila does not care for chains

Preferring wind to stone

Her hungry thighs still sing for me

Her mouth moves like a poem

How we loved in green desire's light

So careful not to bruise

All the secrets we so finely spun

Knowing neither likes to lose

I said time, run like a freight train

Won't you take me down the line?

So much I can never say

Of the ruins left behind

If I could I would explain it all to you

There's so much on my mind

Time, run like a freight train

Take me down the line

Pamela was anxious

I kept her waiting long

She asked me for a symphony

I only gave her songs

But I'm weary of these petty wars

I long for perfect sin

When gravity was my lover

Silence was my friend

Time, run like a freight train

Won't you take me down the line?

So much I can never say

Of the ruins left behind

Oh, my pockets, they are empty

I've got too much on my mind

Time, run like a freight train

Take me down the line

So gather all your shattered mirrors

I'll take 'em willingly

To the peddlers and the auction men

Who will trade 'em all for dreams

For there's nothing left but mercy now

For you, the one-armed thief