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Train for the Desert

from CASAS by John Isaac Watters

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lyrics

Throat all dry and I'm walking
Parched thunderclouds to the west
Heartbroken I found a tree in a creek-bed
and lay down too weary to rest.

And I dreamed I held you by the window
Of a house overlooking the sea
I dreamed our children played soft and slow
A song I had written for thee

Lets take our picnic basket
And our crackin picture frame
Get that old rowboat overturned and patch it
And push out from the icy bank

On the other side of the river,
Is a palace fit for a king
If you do not come with me across the water,
You surrender everything

While the train for the desert is leaving,
Like a man swimming straight out to sea
I left you on your porch in the evening
As the dew leaves the moss on the tree

In the morning the sun will come shining
A body washed up on the rocks
Will you quit your crying my darling,
When they tally up what has been lost

A great painter has been born again
In a dump outside mumbai
While ten millionaires just disappeared
Out above the atlantic sky

And my mother she's been reunited
With the blue thistles bloom
In the tired train station she said she'd been missing me,
Whistling round the room

And I love you as sun rises
As oceans rise and fall
As a bird whips through the air alone
And catatonic calls

I am stunned, I am stunned
Grasping gasping for the truth
If you do not come with me cross the water
You will die alone in your youth

While the train for the desert is leaving
Like a man swimming straight out to sea
I left you on your porch in the evening
As the dew leaves the moss on the tree

In the morning the sun will come shining
A body washed up on the rocks
Will you quit your crying my darling
When they tally up what has been lost

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from CASAS, released August 30, 2012

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