Becoming The Overman

Walk these streets like I used to do
I see your ship fill the harbor view
You cannot have what you cannot see
But I know this place was made for me

I'll sing you this song in the midnight hour
Calling Virginia, call up your children
I'm singing your way back home

See them boys with their pretty little girls
Sundress'd and happy like they own the world
I ain't been here since I don't know when
I was gone for a minute, but now I'm back again

I'll sing you this song in the midnight hour
Calling Virginia, call up your children
I'm singing your way back home

You can cry, my lover, don't cry, my friend
I will leave you but I'll be back again...some day

Walk these streets like I used to do
I see your ship fill the harbor view
You cannot have what you cannot see
And I know this love was made for me

So I'll sing you this song in the midnight hour
Calling Virginia, call up your children
I'm singing your way back home
I'm singing your way back home

- From Demography

Posted by C. Nicholas Walker at 1:02 AM | Permalink | Comments

My daddy was an engineer for the southbound train
He steamed the mountains and rolled through the plains
He was just eighteen when he made his first debut
How I wish he could see me now

Cause I ride the southbound train
Everyday when the sun goes down
Miles and miles my old hometown
And I'll search every phonebook I pass
Just trying to find his name
Cause the only thing I know
Is my daddy drove the southbound train

My daddy was an engineer for the southbound train
He steamed the mountains and cut through the plains
And I'd love to know why he had to go away
And never said goodbye

And I love him, even though he's gone
You know I miss him, ramblin along
You know I want to know that man

So I ride the southbound train
Everyday when the sun goes down
Miles and miles my old hometown
And I'll search every phonebook I pass
Just trying to find his name
Cause the only thing I know
Is my daddy drove the southbound train

- From Demography

Posted by C. Nicholas Walker at 12:35 AM | Permalink | Comments