Lost Prophets - Last Train Home

[Cyre2067]

Was listening to this on the way to work and couldnt help but catch esoteric references:

To every broken heart in here
Love was once a part, but now it's disappeared
She told me that it's all a part of the choices that your making
Even when you think you're right
You have to give to take

But there's still tomorrow
Forget the sorrow
And I can be on the last train home
Watch it pass the day
As it fades away
No more time to care
No more time, today

But we sing
If we're going nowhere
Yeah we sing
If it's not enough
And we sing
Sing without a reason
To ever fall in love

I wonder if you're listening
Picking up on the signals
Sent back from within
Sometimes it feels like I don't really know whats going on
Time and time again it seems like everything is wrong in here

But there's still tomorrow
Forget the sorrow
And I can be on the last train home
Watch it pass the day
As it fades away
No more time to care
No more time, today

But we sing
If we're going nowhere
Yeah we sing
If it's not enough
And we sing
Sing without a reason
To ever fall in love

Well we sing if we're going nowhere
Yeah we sing if it's not enough
And we sing
Sing without a reason to ever fall in love

But we sing
If we're going no where
Yeah we sing
If it's not enough
And we sing
Sing with out a reason to never fall in love
To never fall in love again

 

[aurora]

I haven't heard of this song before but the words affected me deeply. If you know who is singing it could you please tell me so that I can download it.

 

[Cyre2067]

its by the Lost Prophets, called Last Train Home (=the wave?), actually, i didn't think of the meaning of their name until just now... funny how that works.

 

[aurora]

Thanks. As a student I travelled a lot by trains, the old ones using coal fuel. And I was more than 500 miles away from home.
Sometimes it feels like I don't really know whats going on
Time and time again it seems like everything is wrong in here

 

[Mr. Premise]

Then you will also want to download the song "500 Miles Away From Home" by the Country & Western legend, Bobby Bare. Not as profound lyrics as the one quoted above, but a truly beautiful tear-jerker. Corny & moving at the same time like all good C&W. And of course, the concepts of "home" and "mama" and being far away can be read as Gnostic parables:

500 Miles Away From Home
by Bobby Bare

I'm five hundred miles away from home

Teardrops fell on mama's note when I read the things she wrote
She said we miss you son we love you come on home
Well I didn't have to pack I had it all right on my back
Now I'm five hundred miles away from home

Away from home away from home cold and tired and all alone
Yes I'm five hundred miles away from home

(spoken)
I know this is the same road I took the day I left home
But it sure looks different now
Well I guess I look different too cause time changes everything
I wonder what they'll say when they see their boy looking this way

Oh I wonder what they'll say when I get home

Can't remember when I ate it's just thumb and walk and wait
And I'm still five hundred miles away from home
If my luck had been just right I'd be with them all tonight
But I'm still five hundred miles away from home

Away from home away from home cold and tired and all alone
Yes I'm five hundred miles away from home

Thanks. As a student I travelled a lot by trains, the old ones using coal fuel. And I was more than 500 miles away from home.
Sometimes it feels like I don't really know whats going on
Time and time again it seems like everything is wrong in here