Name: Train Tracks
Duration: P00H02M53S
Description: I had been trying to write this song for fifteen years, and then I accidentally wrote it whilst taking a break from my dissertation, thinking about trains. For anyone who hasn't made train tracks in the sand, you put your feet together and shuffle them along on the beach with your Nana.

Train Tracks

from Hazy Rails by OllyRiding

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I had been trying to write this song for fifteen years, and then I accidentally wrote it whilst taking a break from my dissertation, thinking about trains. For anyone who hasn't made train tracks in the sand, you put your feet together and shuffle them along on the beach with your Nana.

lyrics

making train tracks, i the sand
don't be daft and hold my hand
Say you'll never leave again
Cause I don't wanna loose my friend

But dawns up, with open eyes
It hard to think the dreams as lies
Cause the coals are old
but brighter than they were

A better time, a different place
Gets washed away
Like train tracks in the sand

Coming coming going gone
Can we go it won't take long
I'll take some wheels
and you can tag along

Young heart, selfish child
Just a little less than wild
Racing now
Just like you trained me for

CHORUS

All aboard for lost and gone
Doesn't seem like its been long
I'll see you soon
in the nights tales you spun

Click clack, I'm coming back
Got my ticket, laid my track
I should have done this
years ago

CHORUS

coming back around again
the only wondering is when
tiny feet and Little hands
scratching rails in different sands

a better time and a different place,
is made again
like train tracks in the sand

credits

from Hazy Rails, released January 18, 2015

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OllyRiding Burnley, UK

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Shakey Graves
Skin and Bones
Christian Kane

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