Trains

[g-u-n-s]

Lyrics

Train set and match spied under the blind
Shiny and contoured the railway winds
And I've heard the sound from my cousin's bed
The hiss of the train at the railway head

Always the summers are slipping away
A 60 ton angel falls to the earth
A pile of old metal, a radiant blur
Scars in the country, the summer and her

Always the summers are slipping away
Find me a way for making it stay

When I hear the engine pass
I'm kissing you wide
The hissing subsides
I'm in luck

When the evening reaches here
You're tying me up
I'm dying of love
It's OK


It's about a train being derailed, but seen from a certain viewpoint.
It's from the view of a child looking out of the window from his
cousin's bedroom while visiting. From his window he see's a train
derailed and fall down a hill or from a bridge. "A 60 ton angel falls
to the earth, pile of old metal, radiant blur." It's more like a memory
though. As though the songwriter was the child and is remembering
seeing this horrible event and contemplating what it means in terms of
life and death. "Always the summers are slipping away." (с)
when it comes to "i'm dying of love" and those things ... i think the
child, now a grown man, is so lucky that his love is alive. because he
has seen death earlier when the train derailed. and he's kissing her
wide because he realizes that it could be the last time ...(с)

Love it.