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Beat That Train

from Rail Nomads by West Trainz

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lyrics

Hot spot
Cold Stop
Bebop
I will see this line through

Hot spot
Cold Stop
Bebop
Pray we don't stop till the break of dawn

From rags to riches
I was holding my own
Glued to my phone
Then I dropped like a stone
And took off on my own
Now I pick up all those loose dreams
That get lost in the seams
Like those coins that get tossed on the rails
Beneath the machine
I grab the Coal Train with Labrona
Take a cold swig from Virginia
Ride on coat tails with the Rambler
And lay low till the bulls come out
They'll see me beat that train
And hear the hobos shout
Bust it!

Hot spot
This train keeps rollin' on till my time is up
Cold Stop
The beat keeps going, it don't ever wanna stop
Bebop
Just like an endless song
I will see this line through
I will see this line through

Hot spot
The fire's burnin' like a midnight sun
Cold Stop
My time is timeless when I'm on the run
Bebop
The beat keeps going on
Pray we don't stop till the break of dawn

They say I’m half-crazy
Maybe I’m half-sane
I’d cross the ocean
If they ever build
An unerwater freight train
I scribble my name
Like it’s an old game
Make my hieroglyphics in the rain
Like a metaphysical stain
Yet you’re incredulous
At how impetuous
And how happy someone can be
When they’re looking so directionless
Yet this evidence
Is proof that I be setting me a precedence
With no residents
And no president
Just me and my relentlessness

We keep running and running like an endless song
We gonna beat that train till the break of dawn

Hot spot
This train keeps rollin' on till my time is up
Cold Stop
The beat keeps going, it don't ever wanna stop
Bebop
Just like an endless song
I will see this line through
I will see this line through

Hot spot
The fire's burnin' like a midnight sun
Cold Stop
My time is timeless when I'm on the run
Bebop
The beat keeps going on
Pray we don't stop till the break of dawn

Water Bed Lou, watcha gonna do?
I'm gonna find me a fire and a-play the kazoo
Hollywood Pete, who you gonna meet?
No one but the crows and my foes off the tracks in those empty streets
Mista Conductor!
“Yeah!?”
Pull the lever, help me sever my ties
Before the tides rise
And force me to hide
While Smokin' Joe lays low
In the cargo
Spreading lingo
Like a freak show
Listen, oh!

I've got no telephone to be calling home
No house keys that I can call my own
Lost my hat to the wind and my shoes are loose
Found a pack of pimp sticks on a red caboose
I hear the wild dogs
Like wild hogs
Making wild calls
In the empty halls
And they go up in smoke
Just like a firecracker
I take a big toke
To get my courage back up
I’m a wolf man
I’m an owl man
I'm digging for treasure
In a garbage can
And I walk the grounds of a living grave
When the nights come crashing like a tidal wave
So I make my way
To a new day
Every day
When I lay
When I play
When I stray
If you want to fool the switchman
With a mad plan
All you gotta do is
Beat that train

Hot spot
This train keeps rollin' on till my time is up
Cold Stop
The beat keeps going, it don't ever wanna stop
Bebop
Just like an endless song
I will see this line through
I will see this line through

Hot spot
The fire's burnin' like a midnight sun
Cold Stop
My time is timeless when I'm on the run
Bebop
The beat keeps going on
Pray we don't stop till the break of dawn

Hot spot
Cold Stop
Bebop

credits

from Rail Nomads, released May 5, 2023

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West Trainz Montreal, Québec

Erik West Millette est un musicien multidisciplinaire qui a composé et produit plus de 50 albums et a participé à plus de 200 enregistrements.
Avec West Trainz, il crée un concept magistral ferroviaire qui se déploie en plusieurs volets: un spectacle médiatique en salle, un spectacle déambulatoire avec sculptures sonores et motricité électrique, un livre-disque de voyage et un album de chansons. ... more

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