Train in Me

My blood’s pumping faster then it ever has before
At least that’s the way that it feels
There’s a rumbling in my soul and my footfalls on the floor
They sound like steel on steel
And when I go out walking all the people gather around
Just to pitch pennies at my feet
And they all step back some as I jump on every one
And smash them flat as an old bed sheet
Late at night when the moon is full
Someone’s shoveling coal through my brain
My bones are like steel rails and all my voice can do is wail
In another life I’ll bet I was a train
Come Saturday night it seems like everybody knows
When I’m a-coming into town
They say if you stop and listen you’ll hear a whistle in the distance
And a rumbling coming from the ground
And once I get going I can’t seem to stop
So you best be getting out of my way
And you’d better wave good-bye come the end of the night
I never know when I’ll be coming back again
So don’t you take it bad Darling if some night that lonesome whistle
Pulls you away from your dreams
And you reach for me to hold and there’s just a chuck of coal
That’s just the train in me