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the first thing i remember
on a night so long ago
sitting on a porch swing
round about midnight
the trinity of bright lights
streaming through the trees
and the roaring thunder
of the ghost train coming

standing in an empty room
in a house that's falling down
looking at foggy pictures
of those long gone
with every passing year
the circle thins
until nothing is left
but old and blurry pictures
at a forgotten exhibition

stand where you like
in the house or in the field
there is no escape
from the sound of the ghost train
even in the dead man's room
the ghost train sounds the same

all roads lead to dead trees
and one last smoke on the porch
in the waning hours of the dead
then into the fields
dancing through the fields
around dead trees haunted by a full moon
slinging coals and chips of wood
and an endless supply of holy gasoline

this is how the world ends,
my friend
standing on a railroad trestle
beneath a gray dawn
holding a box of matches
with the dead sun rising
behind dead trees
behind dead trees

the devil and i take turns
shooting off bottle rockets
deep into the fields
while wreathed in smoke
soon there's going to be a great burning
lighting up the wide night sky
as we wait for the union pacific
to make its final nightly run

as the fields and the trees burn
as the train's night beam comes
i'll pick up the dead man's harmonica
and play those old ghost train blues

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from BLOODSTAINED POSTCARDS FROM THE BORDERLANDS, released July 18, 2020

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Korperschwache Austin, Texas

Korperschwache was formed in Austin, TX in 1995 and has since released piles of albums on labels such as Crucial Blast, Public Guilt, Inam Records, Cut Hands, Faunasabbatha, Peasant Majik, and more.

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RKF -- guitar, vox, efx, paranoid delusions
Doktor Omega -- beats, time, space, dominatrix vibes ... more

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