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lyrics

We searched up and we searched
down for the railroad at the end of town.
We searched high and we searched low
we never knew which way to go.
If all the rumours that we heard are true
then this day will be brand new,
and everything will just melt away and leave us with this very day.

By the railroad at the end of town
it’s been there years and now it won’t burn down,
the railroad at the end of town
it's where old folks go to make time slow down
at the railroad at the end of town.

Its where you go to get your first kiss,
it’s the reason why your gonna miss,
built up cities and cocktail parties
and in high rise buildings and old hotels,
there is a man who is working with a trench coat on,
he pulls a lever on the tracks to redirect the train,
it’s the first job that they gave my dad,
now he is working underground in a sterilised lab.

By the railroad at the end of town,
there’s an overhanging string of faulty power lines,
at the railroad at the end of town
its good luck now to throw your money down
at the railroad at the end of town.

There’s women going and there shuffling feet
as they make their way down the ghostly street,
blind they follow old signposts
but they never know which way to go
to where the clock is always telling lies
its always saying that’s its ten to five
and the trains come every hour or so
and then they leave behind a trail of smoke

how it is that they can go
when the trains run and the trains run slow
how it is ill never know
how people can people leave and people can go
at the railroad at the end of town.

It’s where I am going, it’s where I am going
to make matter form memories
and watch the rails roll on the track.

She didn’t know all her friends were dead,
even the ones she hadn’t met yet
she said take my head and oh lets go down,
at the railroad at the end of town.

credits

from Family Tree, released August 3, 2012
Simon Dowling (vocals, guitars)
Andy Walsh (bass, guitars, Wurlitzer, organ)
Phil Clarke (vocals, drums)
David Crean (vocals)

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