Catch a train direct to death Glide where wheels and rails caress Hear the last taboos expressed In language looted and compressed Abandon this world for the next Cross the great plain of forgetfulness Trans Siberian Express Life on earth is short at best The cities are a game of chess Copper domes and statuettes Victories with marble breasts Leave your burden with the rest Watch the sleepers phosphoresce Trans Siberian Express Rich man leave your wealthiness Wanderer, your solemn dress Seafarer, the seas caress Beowulf, your angriness Time to take a second guess Time to make a pact with death Trans Siberian Express The world is long, there is no consolation For those who join at the end of the line Through the train the four winds blow The arctic and the sirocco Stalactite and stalagmite Stalag camp and satellite Pass the captives on death row The gulag archipelago The skulls of reindeer in the snow The longboat drifts, the dead float slow Frightened wolves, nowhere to go Find winding cloths of sleet and snow The sleeping kings of long ago Deep beneath Ben Bulben grow Drifts are shifted by the plough Like waves that break against the prow How do you like your blueeyed boy now Mr Death? Before the crocus cloaked the steppes Before the tadpoles and the nests Jack Frost screamed, his voice so hoarse The signalmen were blown off course They passed Attila on his horse Passed the Visigoths and Norse Villages with Viking forts And knew not where they were The world is long, there is no consolation For those who join at the end of the line The skeletons were at the feast Before the dreams of ancient Greece Before the shaman and the priest Jason and the Golden Fleece Before the Dead Sea Scrolls released Their meaning or the experts pieced together The epic of Gilgamesh Trans Siberian Express Dont cry for me I never cried for you Just left without the name Of the place Im going to Left without so much as a whisper to remind you Im travelling to forget you And to find you
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