Midnight Train Lyrics - Singles - The Men They Couldt Hang

This train leaves when the sun goes down 

When the lights are low in the northern towns 

Starts without a whistle, leaves without a word 

Just a light turned red and a driver on board 

Through the mountain lakes it's a downward track 

Into Lancashire and the cities black 

Where the rose was red and the cotton wove 

Where the chimney's hushed and the cotton mills closed 

Midnight Train like an echo 

Of heavy rain falling down 

Midnight Train's carrying something 

That's like a poison from the ground 

>From Nottingham down to Bosworth field 

Past canals and forest and the rivers still 

By the rails there's a boy who begins to wave 

Feels the sting of the wheels like the chill of the grave 

Midnight Train like an echo 

Of heavy rain falling down 

Midnight Train's carrying something 

That's like a poison from the ground 

When the sun comes up then it's London bound 

Over rusty junctions and the underground 

Heading east to the coast it's the end of the line 

A terminal glowing with nuclear shine 

Midnight Train like an echo 

Of heavy rain falling down 

Midnight Train's carrying something 

That's like a poison from the ground 

Midnight Train like a chain 

Around the body of the land 

Seven boxcars full of trouble 

Waiting for Pandora's hand