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Man vs. Train

from Avalon Cassettes by Jamie Hutchings

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    Avalon Cassettes CD
    (Laughing Outlaw 2011)

    1. Invisible Coat
    2. Slack Magic
    3. Smoky Dawson
    4. Ned Kelly Indoors
    5. Man vs. Train
    6. When It'll Blow
    7. Gimme Failure
    8. New Vagabond 04:31
    9. Ways to Fall
    10. Cicada Symphony
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lyrics

MAN VS TRAIN

Wheels were a’ blurring
A dancing of spokes
As my tyres turned to powder
And ground to a halt
And what once had beat torpid
Now thrashed through my chest
As my idiot vehicle
Came to an unwelcome rest
And the sky looked amused
In it’s mute sullen way
At ground not built for feet
But the tracks of a train
And I waved and I waved and I waved…
At that spectre a’ heading my way

Well I’d left the city
A ghost of a mess
With you raving and ranting
And me doing my best
To turn you into a speck
A distant dull roar
Like the sea beneath a cliff top
Or traffic from the top floor

And when I burst from the seat
Ran to the top of the road
Swivelled at the impact
That impossible load
And that train it was a’ flaming
All fire engine red
As it ran through the forest
A metal torch around the bend
And it sang beneath that funeral moon
Like a match in a cavernous room

You’ve been unwilling
To lay it to rest
And I am unable
To comprehend this
All of your violent feeling
Shadowed on the wall
When to me it don’t make
Much sense at all

credits

from Avalon Cassettes, released April 15, 2011
Jamie Hutchings – vocal, nylon string
acoustic, field recordings, Thai flute
Scott Hutchings – percussion
Reuben Wills – bass, saw
Sophie Hutchings – piano
Jared Harrison – percussion
Lee Hutchings – flute

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