train comes through chords by Ezra Furman

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Verse 1
A 
It's a quiet night on main street
where the poisoned water runs
It'll never be the same street
when the time appointed comes
G 
It's talked about in whispers,
A 
nothing certain, only rumor and clue
Bm 
D 
But the vi  olent sheet of silence will be shattered
A 
when the train comes through

Verse 2
A 
We may only be subordinates
but we hear everything
All your closed- door conversations,
we're always listening
G 
We sense frequencies you'd never hear
D 
A 
or think to pay attention to
Bm 
And we can tell what's on its way here
D 
A 
long before the train comes through

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Verse 3

The real news comes in flashes,

here and there among the noise

Borderland insurgent clashes

with the local army boys

Who think they've got a handle on the territory,

for at least a year or two

It'll be too late to get out of the way by the time

the train comes through

Interlude 1

Verse 4
A 
This city is the bearer of an old
and secret curse
It's not written in your bibles,
it's a verse behind a verse
G 
Only visible to an obsessive detail-
D 
A 
oriented heathen Jew
Bm 
But it's the hidden and unspoken that
D 
A 
will thunder when the train comes through

Verse 5
A 
Yes, we labored,
and we built your dwellings here on the hillside
The structures set in stone,
not a chance they could slide
G 
D 
But a great machine can break down suddenly
A 
if someone removes a tiny screw
Bm 
And the solid things will move in all direc
D 
A 
tions when the train comes through

Verse 6
A 
They'll tell about your system
as a system with no teeth
The histories will name us as
the people underneath
G 
D 
The emptiness you'd only heard about
A 
was one we intimately knew
Bm 
But an emptiness is turned into a tun
D 
A 
nel when a train comes through

Verse 7
Bm 
D 
A 
Oh
A transfiguration's coming,
a turning in the song
To the brutal static order they've
depended on so long
G 
This train will carry gamblers,
D 
it'll carry us midnight ramblers too
A 

Verse 8
Bm 
A 
And a broken heart's your ticket so
D 
A 
be ready when the train comes through
Bm 
A 
D 
A broken heart's your ticket so be ready
A 
when the train comes through