Night Train Chords by Bruce Cockburn

It kind of popped out, sort of fully armed from the head of Zeus, as it were.
This is Night Train.
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_ _ _ [F#m] Not a knife throw from here, you can hear the night train passing
That's [E] the sound somebody makes when they're getting away
_ [F#m] Leaving next week's hanging jury far behind them
_ _ [E] A prisoner only of the choices they've made Night [F#m] Train
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_ _ _ _ [F#m] Ice cube in a dark drink shines like starlight
The [E] moon is floating somewhere out at sea
_ [F#m] I'm an island in the blur of noise and color
_ _ [E] Alcatraz, St.
Helena, Patmos, and the Shadow Deep Night [F#m] Train _ _
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_ _ _ _ [C#] And everyone's an island edged with sand
_ _ [G] A temporary refuge where somebody else can stand
_ [F#] To the sea that binds us like the forced tide of a blood oath
_ [D#] To wear it down, dissolve it, recombine it _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ [F#m] Anyone can die here, they do it every day
_ _ [E] It doesn't take much effort, though it goes against the grain
_ [F#m] And the ultimate forgetfulness of [D] violence
_ [E] Sweeps the landscape like the headlight of a train
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_ _ _ [F#m] Night Train _ _
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_ _ _ _ [F#m] Ice cube in a dark drink shines like starlight
_ _ [E] Starlight shines like glass shards and dark hair
_ [F#m] And the mind's eye tumbles out along the steel track
_ _ [E] Fixing every shadow with its stare
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_ _ _ [F#] And in the absence of a vision there are nightmares
_ [G] And in the absence of compassion there is cancer
_ [F#] Whose banner waves over palaces and mean streets
[D#] And the rhythm of the Night Train is a mantra
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