Train Long Suffering
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Woo-wooooooo Woo!
In the name of pain!
(In the name of pain and suffering)
In the name of pain!
(In the name of pain and suffering)
There comes a train!
(There comes a train)
Yeah!
A long black train
(There comes a train)
Lord, a long black train.
Woo-woo! Woo-woo!
Punched from the tunnel
(The tunnel of love is long and lonely)
Engines steaming like a fist
(A fistful of memories)
Into the jolly jaw of morning
(Yeah! O yeah!)
O baby it gets smashed!
(You know that it gets smashed)
O baby it gets smashed!
(You know that it gets smashed)
I kick every goddamn splinter.
Into all the looking eyes in the world.
Into all the laughing eyes.
Of all the girls in the world.
Oooooo-woooooh.
She ain’t never comin back.
She ain’t never comin back.
She ain’t never comin back.
She ain’t never comin back.
And the name of the pain is…
And the name of the pain is…
And the name of the pain is…
And the name of the pain is…
The name of the pain is.
A train long-suffering
On rails of pain
(On rails of pain and suffering)
There comes a train
(There comes a train long-suffering)
On rails of pain
(On rails of pain and suffering)
O baby blow it’s whistle in the rain
Woo-oo Woo! Woo-oo Woo!
Who’s the engine driver?
(The engine drivers over yonder)
His name is Memory
(His name is Memory)
O Memory is his name
(Woooooo-wo!)
Destination: Misery
(Pain and misery)
O pain and misery
(Pain and misery)
O pain and misery.
Hey! Hey!
(Pain and misery)
Hey! That’s a sad lookin sack!
Oooh that’s a sad lookin sack!
And the name of the pain is…
And the name of the pain is…
Ooh the name of the pain is.
A train long-suffering.
There is a train!
(It’s got a name)
Yeah! It’s a train long-suffering.
O Lord a train!
(A long black train)
Lord! Of pain and suffering.
Each night so black
(O yeah! So black)
And in the darkness of my sack.
I’m missing you baby
(I’m missing you)
And I just dunno what to do
(dunno what to do)
(Train long-suffering Train long-suffering)
Train long-suffering Train long-suffering.
O she ain’t never comin back.
O she ain’t never comin back.
O she ain’t never comin back.
O she ain’t never comin back.
And the name of the pain is…
And the name of the pain is…
The name of the train is…
The name of the train is.
Pain and suffering.
