Steel Road - Tim Barry

I can hear a train passing at the Rivanna Junction

I can’t decide on which way it’s going

Probably to Gladstone and on west to Lynchburg

Then off to Roanoke and on to god only knows

And I can’t understand the way that you see me

And I don’t understand the way I’m seeing you

Maybe you’re too young maybe I’m too old

To feel alone this close to you

I can hear my Father screaming in the kitchen at my Mom

They’re throwing dishes again

And there I am a man at age seven

In my room alone in this world of stone

I don’t know if I know them

I don’t if I will

I don’t know if I care either way

But I know I trust no one

And I can’t be trusted

To be here tomorrow

After our brightest day

My heart, it beats slow now and without repeating

What I’ve seen and wished I’d never done

I’ve tried and I’ve tried, girl, to see us as different

I’m saying I’m leaving without saying it’s done

And you don’t know me and I don’t know you

And I don’t know me and you don’t know you

Let’s be strong now and accept this might not last

Today has passed tomorrow’ll be new

And I can hear a train passing at the Rivanna Junction

I can’t decide on which way it’s going