A Train Coming Through Your Town Again

Blame Marina Kanavaki for encouraging me, but here’s another stab at the song I did yesterday. I hope “stab” wasn’t too graphic a depiction. I’m still working on it. But this time I added another track of piano. So click to hear a train on two tracks, which sounds quite proper, a train on two tracks, but it isn’t. Huh??. The song is about the machine, the system, the corporate web of intrigue that has so stupefied people for so long. So the song says “Wake up, people, the train already run through your town” I think everybody knows that, as there’s such dissatisfaction with the political system(s), at least in the US – and, I think, nearly everywhere in the world. The political systems are overwhelmed, corrupted by the power of wealthy interests. What are the people to do?

The last verse isn’t quite clear in the recording

I got the news/Riding the bus this morning

It happened right in front of my eyes

And I tell you, buddy, there was no warning

Hey, the train. It run through your town.

And, as I said to Marina, such a description of the current political landscape certainly does put people in a corner, a hard situation. But seeing the truth, seeing events plainly and accurately is a good way to begin the long journey back home.

Author: Bumba

Shown on a recent visit to the Big Apple, Bumba has written two literary novels and has recorded two CD soundtrack albums to accompany them. Check it out on Bumba Books.

4 thoughts on “A Train Coming Through Your Town Again”

  1. What a nice blame to take!!!
    …and yes, you’re right, people get on that train.. the train of betterment [like you do].
    Only by improving ourselves will we ever be able to rise up and bloom as we should.
    Piano adds a touch of eerie”distortion”, which is perfect the song’s context.

  2. Made me think of the ‘Greeley Grinder’… hundreds of crossings, everybody trying to beat your train. Some would win, some would lose. But there were lot’s of sidings, where you could walk over and get coffee.

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