Mei Lin Heirendt, Compassition Music | ASCAP
You promised me forever with you
Then you turned around and made me blue
Now I can see right through
The man I thought you were wasn't true
The day we finally said "I do"
You really made me think that I loved you
On your hand, one day, I saw so fine
A shiny new band that wasn't mine
Ghost is still wearing your hat on his head
Ghost is still bearing that ring painted red
And no matter how far it runs away
There's still a ghost on that train
You snuck away in the middle of the night
Leaving me without one goodbye
I'd like you to know I didn't cry
'Cause all you ever told me were lies
That train you hopped on had something wrong
I knew it wouldn't take it very long
For those loosened bolts to come undone and catch
Steering you liar off the tracks
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As that lonesome locomotive began to fall
I didn't regret it at all
I believed it was written in the stars
Your actions shouldn't get you very far
That train it never really stopped
It's like you refused to get off
Your soul was stuck to your sin
You never guessed the danger you'd be in
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Mei Lin Heirendt, Compassition Music | ASCAP
There's a woman sitting on the side of the road
She's holding a battered sign
There's shame in her eyes
There's a young man, but his face looks aged and tired
Empty bottles at his feet
No job that he could keep
You could keep on walking
But the road needs blocking
You got to find what needs to be found
You'll never know how much it means
To do just one little thing
So take a look around
There's a mother with a baby in her arms
She's picking up bottles and cans
This isn't what she had planned
There's an old man sitting alone in the cafe
There are tears in his eyes
No one left in his life
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There's a busy nurse working day and night
She's saving precious lives
But she's never satisfied
There's a singer pouring his heart out in the lines
But no one's listening
'Cause they've got other things on their mind
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Mei Lin Heirendt, Compassition Music | ASCAP
When you walked in through those jail room doors I was shackled all in chains
I had treated life so poorly, like it was all a game
I could see how much I hurt you when I looked into your broken eyes
When they told you how much this time, you said your last goodbye
You used to rock me in your lap and hold me oh so tight
You'd tell me all your childhood tales and tuck me in at night
You'd race with me through grassy fields and always let us tie
And you'd hold my hand while I said my prayers 'til the moon lit up the sky
I just want to see your smiling face
But I know it will never be the same
I've tried to do the best that I can
But I know you could never understand
As I sit here in this emptiness I can picture oh so well
Countless empty needles hiding on that shelf
I never meant to go this far, trust me, I've been through hell
You looked at me in the eye said you thought that you could help
You never thought you'd lose me, but there's where you went wrong
I tried to resist and struggled, I simply wasn't strong
The more I used, the more I hurt and I just wanted to die
Now when I look into the mirror I can't help but cry
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