Stone Heart On A Train To Somewhere

            He told me

            that he’d been places- done some things.

            He told me

            I’m an angel. I should have wings.

            And he told me

            he’d saved redwoods up Frisco way. 

            And he told me

            that he shunned high office anyway.

           

            Now I’m a

            stone heart on a train to somewhere

            else than there.

            For change I’d go anywhere.

            I’m a stone heart on a train to somewhere.

            I believed every word

            but he was just a turd.

           

            And he told me

            ‘bout all the places he’d been to.

            And he told me

            he taught Jackie Chan a thing or two.

            And he told meeee

            force of money was what he lacked.

            And he told me

            studio gigs was what held him back.

            Then he

            high-tailed ass out of town.

            Because there

            was some karma goin’ down.

            And I heard

            through his former contacts.

            How he

            hadn’t honored contracts.

            Then they called me

            to the police station.

            They wanted

            specific information.

            Then they told meee

            be careful who I’m with.

            They told me

            he’s evil- to the pith.

           

           

            Now I’m a stone heart on a train to somewhere.

            I needed to git.

            Disappear for a bit.

            Stone heart on a train to somewhere.

            Not quite on the lam.

            I know just what I am.

           

           

            Then I found one

            who said, like me, she’d been wrong done.

            And she said

            she’d watch my things

            while I made a bathroom run.

           

            I was a

            stone heart on a train to somewhere.

            And he hopes, I bet,   

            our paths won’t intersect.

            Stone heart on a train to somewhere.

            To avoid friction

            had to leave the jurisdiction.  

            Stone heart on a train to somewhere.

            A place with an attitude.

            A place they call ‘Gratitude’.

            Stone heart on a train to somewhere.

            Lost my illusions,

            gained some cardiac contusions.

           

            Then she told me

            that guy sold her a bill of goods.

            And she told me

            how he ran off with some hoods.

            And she told me

            he said he was a mentalist.

            And she told meee

            he claimed to be some

            environmentalist.

           

            Then I knew why

            the detective made me wait.

            And I knew why

            he couldn’t even get my name straight.

           

            And now we’re

            Two hearts on a train to somewhere.

            Solving each other’s

            mys-ter-ies.

            Two hearts on a train to somewhere.

            Swapping tales,

            and sharing toaster pastries.

            Two hearts on a train to somewhere.

            She ain’t on the defensive

            and the dining car’s expensive.

            Two hearts on a train to somewhere.

            Laughin’ ‘till we’re cryin’

            as the train continues flyin’.

           

            And we thought

            of places where he might go.

            And we said

            other things about him

            best not sung on radio, and now we’re

            Two hearts on a train to somewhere.

            We wonder where he’s been,

            but now we’re kinda twins, because we’re

            Two hearts on a train to somewhere.

            Chowing ice cream

            and singing ‘Islands In The Stream’.

           

            Two hearts on a train to somewhere