Across the dark and dusty plain
Where scars of old dry rivers run
Night unfolds, a coal black shroud

Across the hard and stony ground

Distant stars shining bright

In the cavern of the night
All is still and silence screams
To the thunder of the lorca train


Flaming steal swift as wind
Wires hum the rails ring

Smokestack burning fiery sparks
Rise up to the stars


Towns asleep by empty roads
Churches rise from crooked roofs
Cloaked in darkness nothing stirs

Grow smaller darker disappear

See the moon so still and cold

A million stars that she'd no warmth
Your nightmares all come out to play
In the silver light


Wait for sunrise in the east
Long shadows crawl across the plain

The ghosts of night will disappear
And lay your fears to rest


Steam hissed up, the hot coals glowed
The furnace blazed, the wheels they rolled
On tracks of iron, straight and cold

The silver moonlight danced

The flames are in the fireman's eye

Orange in the engines glow
Gleaming pistons whirling cranks
Wait for dawn the rooster's crow