Southbound Train

Southbound Train - Jon Foreman

Oh I guess they'll say I've grown

I know more than I wanted to know

I've said more than I wanted to say

I'm heading home

Yeah but I'm not so sure

That home is a place

You can still get to by train

So I'm looking out the window

And I'm drifting off to sleep

With my face pressed up against the pane

With the rhythm of my heart

And the ringing in my ears

It's the rhythm of the southbound train

Oh and the wind starts to look like her hair

And the clouds in her bright blue eyes

As the sea and the shore fall and rise

Like her breast as she breathes by my side

And the moon is her lips as the sun

Is headed on down to the sea

Like her head as she lays down on me

Until we reach Oceanside

Over and over

I hear the same refrain

It's the rhythm of my heart

And my sleepy girl's breathing

It's the rhythm of my southbound train

Oh I suppose they'll say I should've known

Or maybe I'm just feeling old

Like a lawyer

With no one to blame

I'm headed home

Yeah but I'm not so sure

That home is a place

That will ever be the same

So we gather up our things

And we head out in the cold

And your eyes are where you carry the pain

When I hear the whistle weeping

It's crying to the sky

It's the rhythm of the southbound train

It's the rhythm of the southbound train