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Rusted Tracks (Live)

from Live at Telequana Tavern by String of Lights

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lyrics

Rusted Tracks

I dreamt I stood in a barren land, desert for miles around.
I longed for home, for love, for something to take me from this town.
A train pulled in to a sign that read, “nowhere you want to stay.”
[or “know where you want to stay”]
A man on board waved his cap at me. I climbed aboard as it pulled away.

The railroad conductor pulled out a guitar, plucked those tender strings,
sat me down in the dining car, and this he began to sing:

Let these songs carry you down those rusted tracks,
through all of your grim old ghost towns, though you swore you’d never be back.
One day will bring the end of this old rail line, my friend.
Your destination is the promised land, a new life to begin.
I’m sorry, love, but getting there means going through
things you swore you’d left behind.

As we climbed up mountains high and down through tunnels drilled to hell,
tears came streaming from my eyes. In my anguished mind I yelled,
“Steady this old battered heart. It’s beating more than I can bear!”
Knuckles white and torn apart, lungs grasping at thin air.

The railroad conductor pulled out a guitar, plucked those tender strings,
sat me down in the dining car, and started once again to sing:

Let these songs carry you down those rusted tracks,
through all of your grim old ghost towns, though you swore you’d never be back.
One day will bring the end of this old rail line, my friend.
Your destination is the promised land, a new life to begin.
I’m sorry, love, but getting there means going through
things you swore you’d left behind.

[written by Heather Stewart]

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from Live at Telequana Tavern, released June 25, 2020
Heather Stewart: Lead vocals, banjo
Jamie Whiteman: Cello, vocals
Charles Earnshaw: Electric bass, vocals

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