Girls Who Ride On Trains

from The Trains & The Rain by Roy Smiles

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The Girls Who Rise On Trains

I shall not love the models of modern Rome
Or the movie s who call L.A. their home
Not the rich young things or the sad girls on the game
I shall love forever the girls who ride on trains.

I don't know where they're going; I don't know what they've been
I don't know what they're knowing or the many things they've seen
Though they may be strangers and I'll never know their names
I shall love forever the girls who ride on trains.

Chorus
Lonely is the rider of a distant rail
When every jolt reminds him - love has failed
Lonely is the rider, warm a woman's eyes
And every station passed a sad long
A sad long - a sad long .

I'll ride the rails to Scotland; I'll ride the rails to home
Rushing in search of something, a place to call my own
Sad when I have reached there, 'cause everything's the same
Wishing I could return to the girls who ride on trains.

Chorus

Some may call me dreamer: maybe that I am
Life has not been lucky, I'm a disappointed man
But God will never spite me nor make me blind in shame
And I shall love forever the girls who ride on trains
And I shall love forever the girls who ride on trains
And I shall love forever the girls who ride on trains.

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from The Trains & The Rain, released May 30, 2015

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Roy Smiles London, UK

Roy Smiles has recorded ten albums:
'Drunks & Dreamers' (2011), 'Time's Moving On' (2012),'Seize The Day' (2013), 'Autumn Song' (2014), 'Bremen' (2014), 'The Trains & The Rain' (2015), 'Northern Angels'.(2018), 'Lost Souls' (2020), 'November's Child' (2023) & 'Tales Of The Ocean' (2023).
All available on Bandcamp.
Contact: roy.smiles@aol.co.uk. ... more

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