light rail romance

maybe it was something i made up
like my dream last night about teeth
but i swear there was something
some excitement about trains
i think i want to believe some glory
about the conductor and his engine
with a heavy industrial chugging
clacking it's way across the landscape
about people wearing fancy hats
standing on a platform glancing
turning and looking and listening
all this in the train, i wanted to say

this is how it should be, i wanted to say
cuz people fucking love trains
they'd love to ride them all over
all over the cities, out into the country
they'd ride them underground
blasting through the darkness
ride them floating over the city
looking down on the madness
so build them all you mayors
you govenors and senators
build them and they'll be ridden
even god should build one
right on up to heaven
cuz everyone love trains, i wanted to say

but maybe it ain't so
there maybe isn't any glory
there perhaps wasn't this thing
i believed was there at the platform
perhaps the light rail was packed
and people were waiting
not for their love
their love of the trains
but only because
people love the mall