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The Old Train

from The Ring Lieder by Judith Ring

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lyrics

The Old Train

A chain of days puffs from the old smoke stack
of a train that barely makes it up the hill,
and love sits beside me in a third-class seat,
while dreams nod in a corner on their own,
and soul is working somewhere out of sight.
Then I think there’s nowhere else I’d rather be,
than on a train that leaves from what I know,
through the undiscovered landscapes of a life,
to that place we all must go to down the line.

As the sun comes tumbling down towards the dark,
the carriages are a flock of golden lights,
and the last points chatter slow as we pull in
to the shadow-casting city in its rose.
The ancient wheels drum-roll us up the platform,
as the old train draws wheezing to a stop
and I hear the engine gasp and then grow quiet.
Then soul steps off to do the thing that souls do,
as we others spot you watching by the gate,
where you’ve waited all these years to take us home.

© Roderick Ford

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from The Ring Lieder, released October 16, 2017
Judith Ring (voice, piano), Adrian Hart (violin), Lisa Dowdall (viola), Kate Ellis (cello).
Recorded by Leslie Keye

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Judith Ring Dublin, Ireland

Composer/musician/performer/artist and all round music lover based in Dublin, Ireland. I have been writing music for over 20 years and have been greatly inspired by living in such places as Berlin, London, York, Paris and Dublin.

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