Empty Trainload Of Sky - Gillian Welch

Saw a freight train yesterday

It was chugging plugging away

'Cross a river trestle so high

Just a boxcar blue

Showing daylight clear through

Just an empty trainload of sky

Well it hit me and it hurt me

Made my good humor desert me

For a moment I was tempted to fly

To the Devil or the Lord

As it hung there like a sword

Just an empty trainload of sky

Was it spirit was it solid

Did I ditch that class in college

Pulled the curtain from my eye

I said hey hey my my

Saw a freight train yesterday

It was chugging plugging away

Just an empty trainload of sky

Just an empty trainload of sky

Just an empty trainload of sky