Songs About Trains

me and my friends in the park drinking beer underneath the tree / lying on your back as the sun goes down / you know it’s perfect cause you’ve got to leave / on a Saturday night in a town like this / I forget all my songs about trains / a bar with a jukebox and you on my arm / heaven and earth are pretty much the same

Down In the Valley – The Head and the Heart
I wish I was a slave to an age-old trade
Like ridin’ around on railcars and workin’ long days

The Head and the Heart – Down in the Valley

Train Under Water – Bright Eyes
But if you take that train underwater
Then we could talk it through

Bright Eyes – Train Under Water

Jumping Someone Else’s Train – The Cure
Don’t say what you mean
You might spoil your face
If you walk in the crowd
You won’t leave any trace
It’s always the same
You’re jumping someone else’s train

The Cure – Jumping Someone Else’s Train

Smiling At Strangers On Trains – Frank Turner
The forced proximity of a million different Mike Leigh movies
Makes me long for the fresh air of a familiar face
And not the violence of loneliness
Nor the unease of surrounded seclusion.
I keep nearly missing you around corners and in passing trains.

Frank Turner – Smiling At Strangers On Trains

Harrisburg (Live At Vicar Street) – Josh Ritter
It’s a long way to Heaven, it’s closer to Harrisburg
And that’s still a long way from the place where we are
And if evil exists its a pair of train tracks
And the devil is a railroad car

Josh Ritter – Harrisburg