Track Insight / Lyrics
High above the rusted rail
Copper skin is thin and pale
Watching where the north wind blows
Where the cold salt river flows
Turn around the copper wheel
Cold as iron, hard as steel
Looking for the ghost of steam
In a heavy copper dream
Peeling paint on wooden beams
Ripped apart at all the seams
Old tickets blow across the floor
By the heavy depot door
Turn around the copper wheel
Cold as iron, hard as steel
Looking for the ghost of steam
In a heavy copper dream
Empty benches gray and worn
Where the velvet seats are torn
No one waits for midnight trains
Only grease and oil stains
Hold the wind and hold the line
Sifting through the silver pine
Wait for one last whistle call
Before the winter shadows fall
Black soot on the station wall
Watching every leaf now fall
Copper turns a shade of green
Worst of all he's ever seen
Turn around the copper wheel
Cold as iron, hard as steel
Looking for the ghost of steam
In a heavy copper dream
Counting every slow tick-tock
On the frozen station clock
Wind is pulling at the wire
Cold as ice and old as fire
Turn around the copper wheel
Cold as iron, hard as steel
Looking for the ghost of steam
In a heavy copper dream
Copper wheel, turn slow.
Where the north winds blow.
(Humming)
Ooh, ooh.
