Song information On this page you can read the lyrics of the song Downbound Train , by - Ray Manzarek. Release date: 27.03.1974
Song language: English
Downbound Train |
| I found myself on a bar room floor |
| I had drank so much I couldn’t drink no more |
| So I fell asleep with a troubled brain |
| And dreamed that I rode on a down bound train |
| The boiler was filled with blood and beer |
| The devil himself was the engineer |
| The passengers were most a decadent crew |
| Some were foreigners and others I knew |
| Rock stars in velvet, gay boys in drag |
| Beautiful groupies, and wicked old hags |
| They fed the fire with human bones |
| While the furnace rang with a thousand groans |
| As the train rushed on at a terrible pace |
| Sulphuric fumes scorched our hands and face |
| Wider and wider the country grew |
| Faster and faster the engine flew |
| Louder and louder the thunder crashed |
| Brighter and brighter the lighting flashed |
| Hotter and hotter the air became |
| Till our clothes were burnt to a quivering flame |
| Then out of the distance there came a yell |
| 'Look here' - said the devil — ‘We're nearing home' |
| Oh how those passengers shrieked with pain |
| And begged old Satan to stop that down bound train |