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Talking Like a Train

from Someone Else's Songs by Dale Wicks

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A song for those of us who have ever drunk too much and had conversations with people not physically present. This one was more charitable to the absent lady in question than she probably deserved...

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She said "I know you
You're the fellow who's always talking like a train
You come up hard, full-steaming
Then you're leaving like you won't be back again"

But I ain't just talking, I don't know where I'm supposed to be
In the complicated story of my name
The switchyard's calling me to places that I've never been
And I'm sitting here just talking like a train
Say it a million times, it'll never change

She says I look like I'm listening
While I'm sitting here, just drowning in my beer
I said "I don't mind talking to you, baby
And I'd do it even if you weren't the only one here"

But I ain't just talking, I don't know where I'm supposed to be
In the complicated story of my name
The switchyard's calling me to places that I've never been
And I'm sitting here just talking like a train
Say it a million times, it'll never change

It's all the difference in the world to say that I'm alone or that I'm lonely
Thinking of me, are you, baby?
It's all the difference in the world to say that we're apart or that we've parted
Brokenhearted or broken free?
Is that what you believe?
Is that what I believe?
You've broken free, but you've broken me

I'll say I'm happy
You'll say everything just works out for the best
When we both know it doesn't
Makes no difference to me, sitting here, the only one left

But I ain't just talking, I don't know where I'm supposed to be
In the complicated story of my name
The switchyard's calling me to places that I've never been
And I'm sitting here just talking like a train
Say it a million times, it'll never change

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from Someone Else's Songs, released October 18, 2013

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