Downbound Train - Ray Manzarek

I found myself on a bar room floor

I had drank so much I couldn’t drink no more

So I fell asleep with a troubled brain

And dreamed that I rode on a down bound train

The boiler was filled with blood and beer

The devil himself was the engineer

The passengers were most a decadent crew

Some were foreigners and others I knew

Rock stars in velvet, gay boys in drag

Beautiful groupies, and wicked old hags

They fed the fire with human bones

While the furnace rang with a thousand groans

As the train rushed on at a terrible pace

Sulphuric fumes scorched our hands and face

Wider and wider the country grew

Faster and faster the engine flew

Louder and louder the thunder crashed

Brighter and brighter the lighting flashed

Hotter and hotter the air became

Till our clothes were burnt to a quivering flame

Then out of the distance there came a yell

'Look here' - said the devil — ‘We're nearing home'

Oh how those passengers shrieked with pain

And begged old Satan to stop that down bound train