10000 Maniacs - Can't Ignore The Train Lyrics
Steep is the water tower
Painted off-blue to match the sky
Can't ignore the train
Night walks in the valley silent
Can't ignore the train
Dust to be kicked up
In the crack-faced idle sinister town
Screen door to the rail station
Devil in her, she ran alongside the wasted tracks
Hem pins darted in her calves
Can't ignore the train
Somehow wedged inside her throat
Can't ignore the train
Patience their virtue
But I never could abide by that
Dungeon life with electric light
A clean towel and a basin
Mantel figures mind their places
And laughs where they belong
Through adventure
We are not adventuresome
Rage to share with a wardrobe mirror
In a room so beige and cold
Can't ignore the train
Window days saw the children pick their street games on thirty, thirty
Thirty afternoons
Molly, the boys are
Starting in that rhyme again
Teasing more and more the second daughter
How she fell
Young locked in some folks' prison
Made to dwell
Till they're braiding her gray hair
Sitting in the wishing chair
Sitting in the wishing chair
Sitting in the wishing chair
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10000 Maniacs Can't Ignore The Train Comments
Bought this album to study up for them opening up for Squeeze in college. Good stuff.
If I was ever asked what drumming I admired I would say this Super Tight
when this album went out i can’t wait to play it in my cassette stereo, so very happy having one.❤️
Beautiful Natalie, great song, vocals.
my favorite!
I saw them live when I was in college. They opened for REM and it was an amazing concert. I actually liked 10,000 Maniacs better as the opening band! Natalie Merchant danced and whirled up and down the aisles.
Same here. Yeah, I could have done with less whirling.
I am probably just slightly too young to have been able to do what you did, but that is such a cool time to get into music that I couldn't be more jealous.
Thanks for posting this. The Wishing Chair was a great album that got a bit of play on the college radio circuit but Natalie and the Maniacs did not get any mainstream play until they knocked it out of the park with "In My Tribe" in '87. Great song!
Thanks for posting this. I wore out the cassette tape from overplaying years back. Great album.
I have this on vinyl, cassette and CD. LOL
The Popguns did a great cover of this song in the early 90's - well worth a listen!
Tommy Knockers Just checked that out. So full of energy, love it. Thanks for mentioning it.
The more often I hear this the more I realise how wonderful it is.
fine. try listening to the band next time.....f
Again you ! Run run run !
Makes me think, "What inspires such brilliant work?"
I remember sitting in my dorm room at Brown Univ.
back in mid 80s just mesmorized by the guitar and lovely , artsy , intense energy of her voice and loving what I heard. I am lost in those years and transported back in time when i hear it.
wonderful, sends me right back to dreamland.
This song is wicked fun to play on rhythm guitar.
I love this album. It's my favorite out of all of there stuff. Oh the good old days!!!!
One of the great forgotten singles of the 80s, I always thought. It's a shame that such an original and interesting band never got much mainstream success.
So sweet. Takes me right back.
I had a dance with Natalie once, at Manchester International...thought I was "in there" for a brief moment...she was in a world of her own though...