On A Train

from Alleyways by Hamish

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On a Train

I get on the train, I see those familiar faces that I know so well
There’s the one who’d angry at the delay
There’s the one who sleeps all day

My neighbour spends his time talking to his cell
While I’m just lost for words
What can I say to you that isn’t what you’ve heard before?

Here I am, the guy who laughed and threw those old love letters away
I search my mind for those words,
Locked inside this crowded space

Why can’t this train take a shorter path
Burst out of its tracks?
And if we’re forced to stop
I’ll just get off this train and walk

All I see is my reflection when I look out the window
For the lights that means the station’s round the bend
And this waiting’s at an end

Here I am the guy who laughed at all the tricks that love will play
I got taken in
Can’t wait to be taken in again

Why can’t this train take a shorter path
Burst out of its tracks?
And if we’re forced to stop
I’ll just get off this train and walk

I’m not waiting around here anymore
I don’t need this, I just need to be where you are
I see your place, it’s not too far
Can’t wait to be where you are

by Hamish

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from Alleyways, track released December 1, 2010

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Hamish Montréal, Québec

Pharmakos is the second release by Hamish. With songs on 50's movies (Night of the Hunter), writers in lunatic asylums (Christopher Smart), and Viruses, Pharmakos is about the cures we make for the diseases we create.

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