Name: Coal Train
Duration: P00H03M44S
Description: Standing on a bridge in Virginia watching a seemingly endless line of coal cars heading south carrying away the earth. The line was broken only by a couple of low budget travelers sleeping on top of one of the fully loaded hoppers.

Coal Train

from With the Wind by Scott Shipley

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Standing on a bridge in Virginia watching a seemingly endless line of coal cars heading south carrying away the earth. The line was broken only by a couple of low budget travelers sleeping on top of one of the fully loaded hoppers.

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Coal train coal train rolling down that track
Take away that mountain and you can’t bring it back

Freight train freight train hauling that coal
Take away that mountain and you leave a hole

Empty the hillside fill up the holds
To push back the heat and stave off the cold

Down to the valleys through the countryside
To fire up the furnaces and melt the ice

Coal train coal train rolling down that track
Take away that mountain and you won’t bring it back

Freight train freight train hauling that coal
Take away that mountain and you leave a hole

Harvest the mountains to feed the lights
Bury the silences Drowned the night

This hobo's lullaby this landlocked ship
No going home on this one way trip

Million years in the making gone in no time at all
Who’s going to answer when the world comes to call?

Steel wheels and iron lungs They cough and they choke
Take trees from ancient worlds and send them up in smoke

Coal train coal train rolling down that track
Take away that mountain and you won’t bring it back

Freight train freight train hauling that coal
Take away that mountain and you leave a hole

And you leave a hole…

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from With the Wind, track released November 2, 2013

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Scott Shipley New York

Hails from the northernmost reaches of NY. It's called the North Country and it's beautiful. Any more north and we'd be in Canada. Which is nice too.

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