"Night Train To Lorca" lyrics

Across the dark and dusty plain
Where scars of old dry rivers run
The night unfolds a coal-black shroud
Across the hard and stony ground
Distant stars shining bright
In the cavern of the night
All is still, then sudden screams
The thunder of the Lorca train

Flaming steel as swift as wind
The wires hum and the rails, they ring
Smokestack burning, fiery sparks
Rise up and to the stars
Towns asleep by empty roads
Churches rise from crooked roofs
Cloaked in darkness nothing stirs
Grow smaller, darker, disappears

See the moon so still and cold
A million stars that shed no warmth
Your nightmares all come out to play in the silver light
Wait for sunrise in the east
Long shadows crawl across the plain
Ghosts of night will disappear, lay your fears to rest

Steam hissed up, the hot coals glowed
The furnace blazed, the wheels they rolled
On tracks of iron straight and cold
The silver moonlight danced
The flames are in the fireman's eye
Orange in the engine's glow
Gleaming pistons, whirling cranks
Wait for dawn and the rooster's crow

See the moon so still and cold
A million stars that shed no warmth
Your nightmares all come out to play in the silver light
Wait for sunrise in the east
Long shadows crawl across the plain
Ghosts of night will disappear, lay your fears to rest

See the moon so still and cold
A million stars that shed no warmth
Your nightmares all come out to play in the silver light
Wait for sunrise in the east
Long shadows crawl across the plain
Ghosts of night will disappear, lay your fears to rest