Ghost Train

"I think memories are like ghosts -- you can see them, but they're not really there. The more you go on in life, the more you have in your train of ghosts. And when you fall in love, you ride that train together -- the more you get into the love, the more you have to share your ghosts with the other person while you're reliving them yourself. That's such a horrible prospect for the guy in this song. It doesn't happen, he doesn't do it -- but he remembers, in the choruses, why he thought he might." - Adam Duritz

I took the cannonball down to the ocean
Across the desert from sea to shining sea
I rode a ladder that climbed 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, "Hey, 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."

"How do you do?"
She said, "Hey, how do you do?"

(words & music by Adam Duritz)
(c) 1993 EMI Blackwood Music Inc./Jones Falls Music BMI