I took the cannonball down to the ocean
Across the desert from sea to shining sea
I rode a ladder that climbs across the nation
Fifty million feet of earth between the buried and me
`How do you do?`
She said, `Hey, how do you do?`
She buys a ticket `cause it`s cold where she comes from
She climbs aboard because she`s scared of getting older in the snow
Love is a ghost train rumbling through the darkness
Hold on to me darling I`ve got nowhere else to go
`How do you do?`
She said, `How do you do?`
I took the cannonball down to the ocean
Watched the diesel disappear beneath the tumbling waves
Love is a ghost train howling on the radio
`Remember everything.` she said, `when only memory remains.`