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Wait For A Train

from Up Until Recently by Mark Robinson

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WAIT FOR A TRAIN
Music and Lyrics by Mark Robinson
Copyright © 1990 Smallboy Songs

Can you walk slow by the side of the road while the movers and shakers all speed?
Can you say no while the weeds choke and grow,
Can you stand there and wait round for me?
While the love we believe in is far from deceiving us
Still the old faithfuls are pulling past, gone far ahead
When it should be us up there instead.

You’re dying to break but you won't move or shake
Like your promise is written in blood.
Your dignity's suffered , your pride is all covered in mud

And you wait for a train that may never charge through here again .
And the cold and the rain makes you wonder if it's worth it when you stand on your own with your pain
And the promise is all you defend.
Still you wait anyway.

Look at the dust we were made from; it must be that something is kicking up that.
All those left behind are all wheezing and blind as they stumble their way off the track .
There's a trap for the lonely that says you and only you understands everything anyone ever has said -
It's squeezing me now half to death.

And the headlights are streaming, their stereos screaming,
They're picking us out of the dark
While the dirt and the stones and the weeds and the thorns leave their mark .

Sometimes they want to squeeze and squeeze and still squeeze;
They wanna squeeze your life away.
Sometimes I wanna let 'em.
But you wait like a man who just won't understand
It's easier walking alone.
And you wait for a train that has promised to take us back home.
And you wait for a train.

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from Up Until Recently, released February 2, 2015
All Instruments by Michael Luchich and Mark Robinson
Produced and Arranged by Michael Luchich and Mark Robinson
Guitar Solo by Nick Graham

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Mark Robinson Australia

I am Mark Robinson.. No.. NOT that one. I have been a singer/songwriter/guitarist since the age of 13 to now.. which is.. well.. old. I currently live in Katoomba, NSW and still write and record.
Previous bands have been The Noise Toys, Billion Park, The Inklings, Auto De Fe`, White as Red, Mice and Men and FunnyBone ... more

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