Graffiti on the Train

Album: Graffiti on the Train (2013)
Charted: 44
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  • Oh the graffiti on the train
    Oh the graffiti on the train oh no
    Roll in to her life
    Oh the graffiti on the train oh

    Stepped outside he left his lover sleeping
    Rain falls he's drowning in his secret
    Wet streets are quiet as a church hall
    Last house where children kick the football

    Cross roads his heart is beating faster
    Getting close to asking her the question
    "Marry me" he wants to paint the words on
    The night train he's hiding with his spray cans
    And that is going to ride
    When the paint is done and dried oh come on

    Oh the graffiti on the train
    Oh the graffiti on the train
    Oh the graffiti on the train
    Oh she'll never be the same oh no
    Roll in to her life
    Oh the graffiti on the train oh

    Day breaks as lovely as she wakes up
    Sips her cup and dusts her face in make up
    Black phone she hears the people whisper
    Someone died themselves train has slipped up

    Train comes the coach she's always used to
    The doors read a "Marry me I love you"
    Heart stops ecstatic and suspicious
    She makes the call but he don't pick the phone up
    The train sped down the line
    It was last train he would ride oh no

    Oh graffiti on the train
    Oh graffiti on the train
    Oh graffiti on the train
    Oh she will never be the same
    Oh god rolling back into her life
    Oh graffiti on the train oh Writer/s: KELLY JONES
    Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 1

  • Tc from SaDiscovered this song and album, around May 2013 at a time my marriage fell thru. Sounded like a reflection of my life. Meaning: I had been painting that train since i met her. But by the time she saw the graffiti in the way that made sense to her, I was dead.
    Slight twist of the lyrics coz in the story it is the guy who is busy planning to do it. while the mirror is, similarly, a distraction from what matters, by the time she leaves it to see the said graffiti it had better b a piece of art, or the make up.
    That's music.
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