Last Train to Clarksville Clarkdale. We were throwing out names, and when we got to Clarkdale, we thought Clarksville sounded even better. We didn't know it at the time, [but] there is an Army base near the town of Clarksville, Tennessee — which would have fit the bill fine for the storyline. We couldn't be too direct with The Monkees. We couldn't really make a protest song out of it — we kind of snuck it in". Although "Clarksville", a common U.S. place name, is in the song title, the video accompanying the song on the Monkees' TV show showed a sign pointing to
Last Train Home (Lostprophets song) which introduced Geoff Rickly to Lostprophets. The music video was directed by Brian Scott Weber and was shot in various Downtown Los Angeles locations in November 2003. Singer Ian Watkins wears a Pittsburgh Strikers T-shirt (an amateur football club in Western Pennsylvania) during the video. On "Last Train Home" Last Train Home (Lostprophets song) "Last Train Home" is the second single from "Start Something", the second album by the Welsh rock band Lostprophets. This single is the band's joint highest charting in the UK to date, tied with "Rooftops (A Liberation Broadcast)". It remains their most successful in the United