Ghost Train Lyrics - Kevin Ayers

I'm sitting here picking the holes in my sneakers 

Watching the moves of those midnight creepers 

There's a smell of a song, rustling through my head 

Something about being somewhere else instead 

And the ghost train comes blowing on in, through this town 

Picking up the passengers then putting them down 

And the wind steals a leaf, like the ghost of a thief 

And the autumnal wind blows around and around 

Oh those horses of smoke sneaking in through the trees 

There's a shaking and a shuddering that goes to my knees 

And I wonder what's happening, did I miss the joke 

Another year sleeping I never awoke 

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There was plenty war and plenty of death 

Plenty of hunger and wasting of breath 

And all I did was scratch myself and dream a few dreams 

And I wrote a few notes on what I think it all means 

But reading them all now they don't amount to much 

There's no meat to eat no flesh to touch 

A few dreams of you and a few fish to fry 

I just sat there watching another year go by 

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Oh those horses of smoke sneaking in through the trees 

There's a shaking and a shuddering that goes to my knees 

And I wonder what's happening, did I miss the joke 

Another year sleeping I never awoke