Midnight Train lyrics

This train leaves when the sun goes down
When the lights are low in the northern towns
Starts without a whistle, leaves without a word
Just a light turned red and a driver on board
Through the mountain lakes it`s a downward track
Into Lancashire and the cities black
Where the rose was red and the cotton wove
Where the chimney`s hushed and the cotton mills closed
Midnight Train like an echo
Of heavy rain falling down
Midnight Train`s carrying something
That`s like a poison from the ground
>From Nottingham down to Bosworth field
Past canals and forest and the rivers still
By the rails there`s a boy who begins to wave
Feels the sting of the wheels like the chill of the grave
Midnight Train like an echo
Of heavy rain falling down
Midnight Train`s carrying something
That`s like a poison from the ground
When the sun comes up then it`s London bound
Over rusty junctions and the underground
Heading east to the coast it`s the end of the line
A terminal glowing with nuclear shine
Midnight Train like an echo
Of heavy rain falling down
Midnight Train`s carrying something
That`s like a poison from the ground
Midnight Train like a chain
Around the body of the land
Seven boxcars full of trouble
Waiting for Pandora`s hand