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Dead End Train
03:38
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Dead End Train
Words and music by Jon Pozzuto
1.
It was a cold November night when the train first passed me by
Could have sworn I saw your face in glow of the flickering light
I put down my bottle of wine, rubbed the dust out of my eyes
But the train just kept on rolling, right out of my mind
Like the dreams that disappeared as we lost track of time
Riding the rails of wasted years, I never got what’s mine
Chorus
There’s a dead-end train that
Only comes out at night
Snakes through the subway
Below the city lights
I had the misfortune
Of being taken for a ride
Barreling past the train yard
Where the lost souls go to die
2.
The tunnels wind on forever, through the city past the countryside
Past the glimmer of fading hope that’s long gone from your eyes
Past the point of no return, you slipped away and died
I’ll ride this train forever with your ghost pulling at my side
Like the dreams that disappeared as we lost track of time
I stepped inside that misery train, disappeared into the night
Chorus
Bridge
Gone are the days of glory, in the twilight of our youth
Hard to see the good times go, it was sad to face the truth
Gone are the days of romance, cheap perfume, and wine
The makeup’s running down your face, but the train pulls in on time
Chorus
Barreling past the train yard on a cold November night
Better think twice
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2. |
Love and Death
03:25
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Love and Death
Words and music by Jon Pozzuto
1.
Why summer’s sweetness fades away
I guess I’ll never know
Hard to watch you pack your bag
Worse to see you go
You left me standing in the dark
In this room alone
Cuts like every time before
Just deeper to the bone
And the promises that you gave me
Take them back into the night
Chorus
Our dreams crumbled and fell to earth like stardust from the sky
Swept off in the bitter salt of the ever-rising tide
Thoughts of hope soon crawled away, then curled up and died
Down an old forgotten path where love and death collide
2.
How do you pass the time
When you’re awake at night?
Do you ever think of me
When something ain’t quite right?
You won’t end up forgotten
But I can’t pretend you care
I’ll keep my fondest memories
Locked away somewhere
And that sweetness you forbade me
I don’t need it anymore
Chorus
Bridge
If I could find the words to say
To make you change your mind
Would the embers fade away
In the face of borrowed time
Do the nights spent in your arms
Stand for anything
Do the tears you say you cried
Even mean a thing, anymore
Chorus
Love and death collide
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3. |
Cemetery Grove
04:19
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Cemetery Grove
Words and music by Jon Pozzuto
1.
It felt too good to be in your arms again
From fractured promises came breaks too bad to mend
And as the blood flows out of a heart, that you broke like glass
I’ll wither like a dying plant, thrown out with the trash
With no more expectations, or fires left to tend
It’s the charred remains of burned-out love, in the bitter end
Chorus
There’s an orange grove past the cemetery that no one knows about
Where fireflies line the path of vines as the setting sun fades out
See the yellow glow of a lantern, and a library made of stone
Empty, damp, covered in moss, where I go to dream alone
2.
From a tower of broken dreams, empty promises and lies
I watched you play games below, like a creature of the night
From a dirty hotel window, 100 stories high
Looking out on the vast terrain of another last goodbye
I hesitate to take your hand, but I’m soaked to the bone
Let me sit by your fire, before I’m back out there alone
Chorus
Bridge
Trying to find the key to your heart’s like sliding off an icy road
Submerged in a frozen current, complete loss of control
As I sink to the frigid depths, there water in my lungs
A pale glimmer of the mess you’ve made, the person you’ve become
Chorus
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Valley of Empty Cities
04:05
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Valley of Empty Cities
Words and music by Jon Pozzuto
1.
In the valley of empty cities
I can’t make up my mind
In these caverns of sorrow
I wander endlessly blind
The structures are crumbling down
The path’s been beaten by a steady line
Of all those who walked before me
Just dust scattered across time
Chorus
There’s a secret window
There’s some broken glass
This used to be a forest
Now it’s a sea of trash
Beyond the vacant skyline
Were once cities of gold
With the dying generations
The stories remain untold
2.
The memories are stored away
Like marbles in a jar
The sun sets on a dusty street
As I wonder where you are
The cornfield’s dead, full of rats
There’s a stench inside the barn
I roam these barren outskirts
As the mysteries lose their charm
Chorus
Bridge
Play me an ancient melody
That the elders left behind
Fires fade in the midnight skies
Where the children have gone blind
Tell me a little tale of
When we filled ourselves with wine
Twilight seeps through the fruitless trees
Must have rotted off the vine
Chorus
Secret window
Broken glass
Just a sea of trash
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Jon Pozzuto Brooklyn, New York
Guitarist and singer-songwriter from New York City.
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