Come with me
And I'll show you where we breed
Out past the progress of man
Its endlessly sad
The hurt and hate we fear
Been through Dachau
She said it takes 2 hours every day to forget the pain
Ketamine
Dopamine
And the songs he sings
In black and white as in photography
Nostalgia for trains
And on the sea
He is not the king but the thief
And of his dreams they wake tragedy
And the birds of peace
And cubic space beneath
He will hunt your life and ours the same
This is your will today or tomorrow
And I hurt like never before
What price paid for liberty
Nostalgia for trains
We mapped the world in slavery
From railroad to great sailing ships to the cotton fields
And there to set mankind free
Progress has a charge on beautiful things
This world is more and less because of you
And the animal is hungry for the time before you came
From whale oil we make nitro-glycerine
Here comes the great destructive metaphor of man
We kill the whale to kill our own
Like weeping for another fallen war
I hear the rhythm of the box car roar
Nostalgia for trains
At his worst he's off the rails of tragedy
But at his best he come as a locomotive of love
He shines a light on the things we have yet to see
And it will reach your door
Oh let him in
His gift is for the world
And a man will come and take away your shame
With science and art
We become God
Tell the dolphin the oceans have no more walls
Nostalgia for trains