Ezra Furman - Train Comes Through lyrics

It’s a quiet night on Main Street
Where the poisoned water runs
It’ll never be the same street
When the time appointed comes
It’s talked about in
Whispers, nothing certain
Only rumor and clue
But the violent sheet of silence will be
Shattered when the train comes through

We may only be subordinates
But we hear everything
All your closed door conversations
We’re always listening
We sense frequencies you’d never hear or
Think to pay attention to
And we can tell what’s on it's way here
Long before the train comes through

The real news comes in flashes
Here and there among the noise
Borderland insurgent clashes with the
Local army boys
Who think they’ve got a
Handle on the territory
For at least a year or two
It’ll be too late to get out of the
Way by the time the train comes through
This city is the bearer of
An old and secret curse
It’s not written in your Bibles
It’s a verse behind a verse
Only visible to an obsessive
Detail-oriented heathen Jew
But it’s the hidden and unspoken that will
Thunder when the train comes through

Yes, we labored and we built your
Dwellings here on the hillside
The structures set in stone
Not a chance they could slide
But a great machine can break down suddenly
If someone removes a tiny screw
And the solid things will move in all
Directions when the train comes through

They’ll tell about your system as
A system with no teeth
The histories will name us
As the people underneath
The emptiness you’d only heard about
Was one we intimately knew
But an emptiness is turned into a
Tunnel when a train comes through
Ohh

A transfiguration’s coming
A turning in the song
To the brutal static order they’ve
Depended on so long
This train will carry gamblers
It’ll carry us midnight ramblers too
And a broken heart’s your ticket so be
Ready when the train comes through
A broken heart’s your ticket so be
Ready when the train comes through
Ahh
Ahh