Old Familiar Steam Lyrics - Old 97's

By the time you leave 

I'll be saving all my green 

For a homebound train to carry me 

On old familiar steam 

I wish you'd hurry up 

And leave or come around 

Well the moon is waning hard tonight 

I'm leaving my hometown 

And the train rolls on with no pilot 

And the station's left me I know 

But if you should happen to find it 

Please bring it home, bring it home 

I traded all my stops 

For a pillow made of rails 

In an empty room I listen to 

The lonely whistle wails 

I woke up to feet 

That I took to be your shoes 

And the train lay tracks that deafened me 

Shook my insides loose 

And the train rolls on with no pilot 

And the station's left me I know 

But if you should happen to find it 

Please bring it home, bring it home 

And the point of all this living 

Is the dying still to come 

And I could be forgiven 

But I just won't, I just won't