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