Can't Ignore The Train Lyrics - 10,000 Maniacs

Steep is the water tower 

Painted off blue to match the sky 

Can't ignore the train 

Night walks in the valley silent 

You could swear the earth just moved 

Can't ignore the train 

Dust to be kicked up 

In the crack faced idle sinister town 

Screen door to the rail station, devil in her shoe 

Ran along side the wasted tracks 

Hem pins darted in her calves 

Can't ignore the train 

One spoiled girl with the tidiest apology 

Some how wedged inside her throat 

Can't ignore the train 

Patience their virtue but I never could abide by that 

Dungeon life with electric light, a clean towel and a basin 

Mantle figures mind their places and laughs where they belong 

Through adventure we are not adventuresome 

Rage to share with a wardrobe mirror 

In a room so beige and cold 

Can't ignore the train 

Window days saw the children pick their 

Street games on thirty, thirty, thirty afternoons 

Molly the boys are starting in that rhyme again 

Teasing more and more 

The second daughter, how she fell? 

Young locked in Some Folk's Prison, made to dwell 

'Til they're braiding her gray hair sitting in the wishing chair 

Sitting in the wishing chair, sitting in the wishing chair