Old Familiar Steam

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