Lyrics

And here I am Day after day I used to be a speed demon But they threw me away Now I'm stuck here all alone In the middle of a field The Birds and the Trees, Swayin' Made a mess out of me And I'm sayin' - There's music in the way the weather hits my rusty coat But I don't give a damn without a place to go I could have shot across the mountainside An open country fate But instead they say that I'm the Little Engine Who Couldn't Think Straight And I can hear them saying: "We heard about this Little Engine of the North We heard he drove a hundred men into the ocean Can you believe this Little Engine? What a foolish Little Engine!" And even though I'm all alone And those are voices in my head I can still hear their hearts stop beating I can still see their tears start falling The water's deep and freezing And I'm leaning on a rock Floating past the dead I see a ticking clock Saying time is up my friend Take a bow and leave the stage Cause forever says you're now the Little Engine Who Couldn't Think Straight And they'll never stop saying: "We heard about this Little Engine of the North We heard he drove a hundred men into the ocean Can you believe this Little Engine? What a foolish Little Engine! KILL HIM!!!!" Maybe one day they'll forgive And try me out again Until then I'll just sit here waiting A scrap of metal trash they've created -INTERLUDE- The Shredding Tears Have Come to Play On the Stage A Little Song of Light and Sound OH! Can you see 'em spinning 'round? OH! A Little Song of Light and Sound!