Lyrics

[Verse 1] Across the dark and dusty plain Where scars of old dry rivers run The night unfolds a coal-black shroud Across the hard and stony ground Distant stars shining bright In the cavern of the night All is still, then sudden screams The thunder of the Lorca train [Verse 2] Flaming steel as swift as wind The wires hum and the rails, they ring Smokestack burning, fiery sparks Rise up and to the stars Towns asleep by empty roads Churches rise from crooked roofs Cloaked in darkness nothing stirs Grow smaller, darker, disappears [Chorus] See the moon so still and cold A million stars that shed no warmth Your nightmares all come out to play in the silver light Wait for sunrise in the east Long shadows crawl across the plain Ghosts of night will disappear, lay your fears to rest [Bridge] Steam hissed up, the hot coals glowed The furnace blazed, the wheels they rolled On tracks of iron straight and cold The silver moonlight danced The flames are in the fireman's eye Orange in the engine's glow Gleaming pistons, whirling cranks Wait for dawn and the rooster's crow [Chorus] See the moon so still and cold A million stars that shed no warmth Your nightmares all come out to play in the silver light Wait for sunrise in the east Long shadows crawl across the plain Ghosts of night will disappear, lay your fears to rest [Chorus] See the moon so still and cold A million stars that shed no warmth Your nightmares all come out to play in the silver light Wait for sunrise in the east Long shadows crawl across the plain Ghosts of night will disappear, lay your fears to rest