Fear Of Trains Lyrics - The Magnetic Fields

It was the army train that took her daddy from her 

It was the Bible train that took her momma too 

And that high loud whistle made her horse run away 

But the straw the broke the camel's back was you 

It was the government train that took away her childhood 

It was the KKK that took away her past 

It was the white man's will that hers be broken 

But that barefoot girl could run too fast 

Because the world's too cold for a girl like that 

With a Blackfoot soul and a cowboy hat 

Everything she loved went down the dragon track 

She had a fear of trains 

In the beet fields of Montana 

She's always coming on dead rails 

To break the plow and whisper 

"Honey, bound to live is bound to fail" 

And in a park in San Francisco 

Her momma shrieks about the Lord 

And down the dead rails there's an echo 

The wind is whistling all aboard 

Because the world's too cold for a girl like that 

With a Blackfoot soul and a cowboy hat 

Everything she loved went down the dragon track 

She had a fear of trains 

It was the wagon train that took away her country 

It was the oil train that took away her land 

She could have been the belle of the ponderosa 

But that was not the fat man's plan 

Because the world's too cold for a girl like that 

With a Blackfoot soul and a cowboy hat 

Everything she loved went down the dragon track 

She had a fear of trains