Rosemary's Song
I'm on the world's last steam train
lookin' out the window
Watchin' another life go by
got tongue -tied gun shy stand
ing in your doorway
trying not to say goodbye
to the secrets in your
bedroom that you told
I want to press my silver cross
against your gold
Passin' through a ghost town
lookin' at the sundown
Talkin' to the engineer
Wanna backtrack time
Till the whistle stops blowin'
and the snowcaps disappear
Baby, all these empty boxcars
look the same to me
I wanna get off of this God -forsaken train
Well, I'm thinkin' about you all the way
from Brownsville to Laredo
Bought a round -trip ticket
from Denver to Durango
I'm countin' all the tracks
till I get off of the train
Somewhere the ghost
of your warm love lies
Between your long black hair
and your pretty dark eyes
I hope it doesn't fade away
like the frost on the windowpane
I want to come back to the roses in your name
Got me feelin' kinda lovesick
lookin' like a train wreck
Listenin' to the engine moan
I'm lookin' for a rainbow
Waitin' at the depot
standin' by a telephone
Had my arms wrapped around you
It was almost all night long
I'd give a thousand Hail Marys
Just to figure out what went wrong
Well, I'm thinkin'
about you all the way
from Brownsville to Laredo
bought a round -trip ticket
from Denver to Durango
I'm countin' all the tracks
till I get off of the train
Somewhere the ghost
of your warm love lies
between your long black hair
and your pretty dark eyes
It's probably gon na fade away
like the frost on the windowpane
I wanna come back to the roses
Come back to the roses
I want to come back to the
roses in your name
On the world's last steam train
looking out the window
Watch another life go by
got tongue -tied gun shy stand
ing in your doorway
trying not to say goodbye
to the secrets in your bedroom that you told.
I want to press my silver cross
against your gold, baby.
You