The Tragically Hip Lyrics

Train Overnight Lyrics

I loaded the variables like masterpieces
from under the germ-led advance.
I saw your compass on a sea of frayed cable
and aspects of vision afloat
in a glance.
and outside the train overnight floodlights
on inexorable sights.

You loaded the variables like acquisitions
from under the noses entranced
you heard some trumpets you thought were
turntables and inklings to listen
dispersed
in a glance.
outside the train overnight contrite the
whistle wails goodnight apologizing like
an ol' dictator might.

Of course we’re now travelling by plane
if it’s not a Canada of a pain
we’ll entertain the idea of train
outside the train overnight bloodlines
wheel-burnished in moonlight a great
candescent white skeleton of flight.


Song Menu1. My Music At Work2. Tiger the Lion3. Lake Fever4. Putting Down5. Stay6. The Bastard7. The Completists8. Freak Turbulence9. Sharks10. Toronto #411. Wild Mountain Honey12. Train Overnight13. The Bear14. As I Wind Down The Pines go