…Ridin′ on the City of New Orleans Illinois Central, Monday mornin' rail 15 cars and 15 restless riders Three conductors, 25 sacks of mail All along the southbound odyssey the train pulls out of Kankakee Rolls along…

…So many days since I saw your face God knows how many times I've been tryin' not to call you You've been around the world up to the moon Always on the run, so young and restless She was long gone when she was close to…

…I’m at the station Of imagination Running after your train World frozen but I still move Drifting away from you Running in vain We are one-of-a-kind And our love so divine Might still be there for us to find When I am…

…you smile less Here's to the pain The light of the oncoming train Come on Ode to solitude in chains Here's to the pain As always, heaven in flames Now bleeding Ode to solitude in chains Map the scars of a heart…

…me When I need to be understood I am not the one to tell the truth Not the one to tell a lie Is this the heaven I knew or just another hell Hear the storm rising again And I'm just a grain of sand Storm is fading away…

…been in the same stages. Its time for me to settle down, I have seen europe and all kinds of fun. I have travelled through the europe by train, to see, how life in somewhere else is, and old faces to meet. do we have…

…I just sit on the train to see you, i wait to arrive to my new town, ot see how it is and how there sounds, how the people are, how they have theated you, so far. I just sit home and watch tv, these is nothing during…

…See the man in the busy street? He's almost incomplete He takes his pleasure in strange ways. And the lady in the library? She's just like you and me You wouldn't know her at all She takes the train up to the great big…

…of rain Drift along this river of sadness 'til we feel no pain Baby stop, Hail Maries for the secrets you've kept from me Hail Maries for tomorrow's dream In the arms of rain we are free Again, I fought myself and lost…