Eastbound Train

Train station at midnight Red hair in the moonlight With a beat-up guitar Playing for spare change Underneath the streetlight Singing in the moonlight Homeless in the nighttime Hopeless in the day And the people just walk by Out here in the night time Boarding all their trains To take them away To their homes and their covers To their pillows and lovers To the food in the cupboards They go their own ways You start to unravel Face down on the gravel With a drink in your hand And guitar stowed away 'Cause it's all so damn hopeless When you're given no notice When you ain't go no money Or a place to stay And thunder and lightning You walk through the night Where old tired stone faces Tell a story of pain And it's never been easy To feel this uneasy When you're down on your luck And wasting away The city is silent You are your own pilot Through the end of this nighttime To the start of new day It's all just a heartbeat A walk down an old street Hopeless in the nighttime Hopelessly away From the people who love you To the people who know you From the west coast to east coast Seems a long way away Train station at midnight Red hair in the moonlight Wishing that was you On the eastbound train