Something Like a Train

Title Submitted By: Adam Glendye
Genre: Folk-Rock, Americana

I shortened the title from it’s original, “Life is something like a train.”
The idea for this song came from author Elizabeth Gilbert’s TED talk where
she quoted poet Ruth Stone on inspiration:

“When she was growing up in rural Virginia she would be out working in the
fields and she said she would feel and hear a poem coming at her from over
the landscape and she said it was like a thunderous train of air and it
would come barrelling down at her over the landscape. And she said that when
she felt it coming – because it would shake the earth under her feet – she
knew that she had only one thing to do at that point and that was to, in her
words, ‘run like hell’ and she would run like hell to the house, being
chased by this poem. And the whole deal was that she had to get to a piece
of paper and pencil fast enough so when it thundered through her she could
collect it and grab it on the page.”

I thought it was fitting to write a song loosely about going after
inspiration, since that is the entire mission of FAWM.

Hey you
Standing there at your door
Waiting, on inspiration like a summer storm
But you have got to jump on board
You have got to jump on

Hey you
Gazing out at the stars
Just waiting
For love to seize you like a holy war
Oh but you have got to jump on board
Oh, you have got to jump

You’re safe inside
You bide your time a little more
You waste the life that could be yours

Hey you
Timid on the platform
Just waiting
For someone else to go change the world
Oh, but you have got to jump on board
You have got to jump on

You’re safe inside
You bide your time a little more
You waste the life that could be yours

Well it’s coming,
It’s coming and it won’t be back
Can you hear it
Hear the rumble of the rusty track
And the train
Will roll on by
You gotta run or you gotta hold on tight

You’re safe inside
You bide your time a little more
You waste the life that could be yours