4:44 There's A Long Train Running (By The Doobie Brothers) Music/Text Lyrics
Down around the corner
Half a mile from here
See them long trains runnin'
And you watch 'em disappear
Without love
Where would you be now?
(Without love)
Know I saw Miss Lucy
Down along the tracks
She lost her home and her family
And she won't be coming back
Without love
Where would you be right now?
(Without love)
Well, the Illinois Central
And the Southern Central freight
Got to keep on pushin' mama
'Cause you know they're runnin' late
Without love
Where would you be now, na-na-now?
(Without love)
Well, the Illinois Central
And the Southern Central freight
Got to keep on pushin' mama
You know they're runnin' late
Without love
Where would you be now?
(Without love)
Well, pistons keep on churnin'
And the wheels go 'round and 'round
And the steel rails lie cold
And hard on the mountains they go down
Without love
Where would you be right now?
(Without love)
Ooh, where would you be now?
Mmm, got to get you baby-baby
Won't you move it down?
Won't you move it down?
Baby-baby-baby-baby
Won't you move it down?
When the big train run
When the train I'm movin' on
I got to keep on movin'
Keep on movin'
Won't you keep on movin'?
Won't you keep on movin'?
A long-time great lyric what i would call Zen koan "Without love / Where would you be right now?" And reminds of another fave, Dylan's "Slow Train" with a few of many good lines: "But the enemy I see wears a cloak of decency" & "Man's ego is inflated, his laws are outdated, they don't apply no more" & "People starving and thirsting, grain elevators are bursting / Oh, you know it costs more to store the food than it do to give it / They say lose your inhibitions, follow your own ambitions / They talk about a life of brotherly love, show me someone who knows how to live it? / There's a slow, slow train comin' up around the bend".