Freight Train Lyrics - Kasey Chambers

Well I just came down from Chippewa 

I had a station wagon and a hundred dollars 

I was thinkin' about the girl I'd lost a year before 

I hadn't seen her for some time 

I thought that I might go on by 

When your memory came floodin' in 

And you closed that door 

[CHORUS:] 

Wish I was a freight train baby 

Wish I was a diesel locomotive 

I'd come whistlin' down your track 

Crashin' in your door 

Wish I was a freight train baby 

Wish I didn't have a heart 

And you'd need a shovel for the coal 

Just to get me started 

Wish I was a freight train baby 

Wish I was a freight train 

Well every time I talk to you 

And I hear your jealous lies 

I feel like I've been left abandoned 

On some old railway side 

And every time I hear your voice 

My water just gets cold 

My stoker will not stoke 

And my boiler will not boil 

[CHORUS] 

Well every time I fell behind 

And I could not get ahead 

I wish someone would pull the lever 

And give me a little sand 

And every time I slip behind 

Even further back 

I wish some switchman would come out of the fog 

And change my track 

Wish I was a freight train baby 

Wish I was a diesel locomotive 

I'd come whistlin' down your track 

Crashin' in your door 

Wish I was a freight train baby 

Wish I didn't have a heart 

And you'd need a shovel for the coal 

Just to get me started 

Wish I was a freight train baby 

Wish I was a freight train . . .