Train Comes Through

B It's a quiet night on main street where the poisoned water runs B It'll never be the same street when the time appointed comes A B It's talked about in whispers, nothing certain only rumor and clue C#m E B But the violent sheet of silence will be shattered when the train comes through B We may only be subordinates but we hear everything B All your closed-door conversations we're always listening A E B We sense frequencies you'd never hear or think to pay attention to C#m E B And we can tell what's on its way here long before the train comes through B The real news comes in flashes, here and there among the noise B Borderland insurgent clashes with the local army boys A B Who think they've got a handle on the territory, for at least a year or two C#m E B It'll be too late to get out of the way by the time the train comes through C#m E B B This city is the bearer of an old and secret curse B It's not written in your bibles, it's a verse behind a verse A B Only visible to an obsessive detail-oriented heathen Jew C#m E B But it's the hidden and unspoken that will thunder when the train comes through B Yes, we labored and we built your dwellings here on the hillside B The structures set in stone, not a chance they could slide A E B But a great machine can break down suddenly if someone removes a tiny screw C#m E B And the solid things will move in all directions when the train comes through B They'll tell about your system as a system with no teeth B The histories will name us as the people underneath A E B The emptiness you'd only heard about was one we intimately knew C#m E B But an emptiness is turned into a tunnel when a train comes through C#m E Ohh B Ahhh B A transfiguration's coming, a turning in the song B To the brutal static order they've depended on so long A E B This train will carry gamblers it'll carry us midnight rambers too C#m E B And a broken heart's your ticket so be ready when the train comes through C#m D#m E B A broken heart's your ticket so be ready when the train comes through B Ahh B Ahh