Jacob's Ladder/this Train Revised Lyrics - Indigo Girls

we are climbing 

jacob's ladder 

we are climbing 

jacob's ladder 

out of these boxcars 

and out of these chambers 

out of the bed where we lay 

with ten strangers 

we are climbing 

jacob's ladder 

we are climbing 

on jacob, jacob's ladder 

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it's a fish white belly 

a lump in my throat 

razor on the wire 

skin and bone 

piss and blood 

in a railroad car 

one hundred people 

gypsies queers 

and david's star 

this train is bound for glory 

this train is bound for glory 

this train is bound for glory now 

this train 

yeah 

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measure the bones 

count the face 

pull out the teeth 

did you get them all? 

do you belong 

to the human race 

doctor doctor 

are you unkind 

do you shock the monkeys 

cover our eyes 

with clear blue skies 

ah 

this train is bound for glory 

ah 

this train is bound for glory 

ah 

this train is bound for glory now 

ah ah 

this train 

here is a dancer 

who has no legs 

here is a teacher 

who has no face 

here is a healer 

who has no hands 

here is a runner 

who has no feet 

here is a thinker 

who has no head 

here is a builder 

who has no back 

here is a writer 

who has no voice 

these are the questions 

these are the answers 

stacked like wood 

this train is bound for glory 

this train is bound for glory 

this train is bound for glory now 

this train 

this train is bound for glory 

this train it carried your mothers 

this train is bound for glory 

this train it, it carried your fathers 

this train is bound for glory now 

this train it, it carried your sisters 

this train 

this train it, it carried your brothers 

(here is a teacher) 

this train it, it carried my sisters 

(here is a writer) 

this train it, it carried my brother 

(here is a thinker) 

this train is 

this train is bound for glory 

these are the questions 

stacked like wood 

these are the answers 

here is potential 

and it's gone for good