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The Green Train

by Grey Revell

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summer evening bloody hands in the corner house of trance all your reasons left to chance let the police handle it let the police handle it william fear was seen 'round ten let the police handle william fear strummer's kneeling on my hands take your beating like a man let the police handle it let the police handle it william fear will not repent let the police handle william fear
2.
if you need another boy to suit you down find my wedding pictures buried in the ground cos i won't be coming round to watch a friend of mine go down deliver hell on me if you need another boy to hold your hand find my bag of fire buried in the sand cos i won't be here to watch another smiling preacher man deliver hell on me you better find another way to sing that song you better put them words right back where they belong if you need another boy to hold your hand find my bag of fire buried in the sand cos i won't be here to watch another stinking preacher man deliver hell on me them magic diamonds they've been burning up the mine i better make my move before i lose my mind if you need another boy to burn you hands take my bag of fire to the preacher man cos i gone to new york city go and catch me if you can deliver hell on me
3.
this emerald's heart wasn't made to be broken ain't up for sale to the young or the old this emerald's heart it can take quite a beating but if you break it then consider it sold this emerald's heart wasn't made to be buried it makes a nest where the angels are cold making a trade isn't quite necessary cos if you break it then consider it sold i never thought i'd use words of your own ain't got no choice it's really all that i know this heart is yours now to have and hold but if you break it then consider it sold this emerald's heart wasn't made to be buried it makes a nest where the angels are cold making a trade isn't quite necessary cos if you break it then consider it sold i never thought i'd use words of your own ain't got no choice it's really all that i know this heart is yours now to have and hold but if you break it then consider it sold this emerald's heart wasn't made to be broken ain't up for sale to the young or the old this emerald's heart it can take quite a beating but if you break it then consider it sold easy to look at nice to hold but if you break it then consider it sold
4.
i been living in a shoebox something on my mind nail your secrets on the wall cos i won't tell you mine no we you're breaking me down with your mighty glass hammer sister nancy told me man you better act your age all these places took my fire they took my minimum wage no way they're breaking me down with a mighty glass hammer two years from the day i told him i will never leave two years to the time i lost my girl on new years eve no way you're breaking me down with a might glass hammer no way you're breaking me down..
5.
not for nothing but i don't have nothing but this song i hope you listen i been lying sleepless watching sirens fade from screams into a whisper i love you i came through your door nobody's boy worn down to no more than a shadow you showed me the lightning crashing flashing blue and green outside your window i love you they will say i lost it all say it's time i took a fall say my golden days are done we been round enough to know that any move we make is the correct one not for nothing but i don't have nothing but this song i hope you listen through it all through spring or fall when chaos calls you'll always be my sister i love you get up you little soldier your eyes are water green and blue your arms are so small but your heart is so big
6.
Howler 02:31
howler no time to go and find another i think i'll go now find my mother you took my baby away mother my baby ran off with a howler i think i'll go now find my brother he know just what i should say i took her to a movie where she gave him the eye turn around to kiss her she was waving me by took her to the airport she was running like a monkey screaming give me my man running through the airport screaming give me my man martha i hope you're happy with your howler i'm gonna go now find my brother he know just what i should say running through the airport screaming give me my man arthur it's been so long you still my brother you ain't my brother you a howler you'll take my baby away running through the airport screaming give me my man running through the airport screaming give me my man running through the airport screaming give me my man...
7.
now it's time for little eyes to come down and say goodnite dim your lamp for just a little while off to bed bye sleepychild now it's time for older eyes to keep watch until sunrise let the devil in for just awhile off to bed bye sleepychild while you're sleeping and the world knows nothing while your dreaming & you're dreaming of something while you're dreaming and the water keeps running while you're sleeping and the world knows nothing little feet while the water keeps running while your sleeping and your dreaming of something dream and sleep while the water keeps running while your sleeping and the world knows nothing off to bed bye sleepychild..
8.
green train green train going north to Charlemagne moving neath the moon and rolling faster than the rain warm rain warm rain morning fog and old blue flame going to a place that i will never see again and i say, i see the young boy made of fire! sitting in the last car drinking wine I say, i see the rag upon the the wire swaying to and fro above the line of the green train green train going north to Charlemagne moving neath the moon and rolling faster than the rain warm rain warm rain morning fog and old blue flame going to a place that i will never see again...
9.
my friends and foes have made me whole and irish girl has saved my soul only time can take what i have found that wheel turns too often now in the day before i came to rest i prayed that i be put to test i hoped the world would spin me round that wheel turns too often now the world he a jealous old tiger and he don't stop for no one at all the world he's a jealous old miser and he don't stop for no one at all no one at all lord stay with me and i with you through trial and time we will ring true my wild eyed days have run to ground that wheel turns too often now
10.
first comes the lookin' then comes the lyin' then comes the huggin' then comes the hidin' then comes the kissin' then comes the cryin'' first comes the lovin' then comes the dyin' first comes the lovin' then comes the dyin'..

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Green Train was recorded in Jersey City, NJ during the Spring of 2000

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released November 21, 2000

Produced at Balloon Heaven by Spencer Chakedis for Balloon Heaven Studios, Ltd.
All songs © 2000 Ambush Hymnal (SACM)

Grey Revell - Vox, Guitars, Keys
Spencer Chakedis - Guitars, Vox, Mandolins
James Telfer - Bass, Vox
Matt Cusack - Drums
Matt Carlsson - Tambourine, Percussion

Brer Brian - Organ, "Howler"
Turner Cody - 2nd Guitar "This Emerald's Heart"
Gavin Truebrass - Trombone "Young William Fear"

Cover photo by Patricia Grace

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