Night Train Chords by Bruce Cockburn

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_ _ _ [F#m] a knife throw from here you can hear the night train passing.
_ [E] That's the sound somebody makes when they're getting away.
_ [D] Leaving next week to hang in jewelry far behind them.
_ _ [E] Prisoner only on the choices they've made.
Night [D] train, _ _
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_ _ _ [D] night train. _
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_ _ _ _ [F#m] Ice cube in the dark rain shines like starlight.
_ [E] The moon is floating somewhere out at sea.
_ [F#m] I'm an island in the world.
_ _ _ _ [E] Alcatraz, St.
Helena, Patmos and the Shadow Deep.
Night [D] train, _ _
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_ _ _ [D] night train. _
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_ _ _ _ [F#m] _ Everyone's a life of sand.
[F#] _ [G] A temporary refuge where [G] somebody else can stand.
_ [F#m] Till the season finds us like the fourth [F#] tide of a blood oath.
_ [G#m] We'll wear it down, dissolve it, _ recombine it. _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ [D] Ice cube in the dark rain shines like starlight.
_ [E] Starlight shines like glass shards and [E] dark hair.
_ [F#m] When the mind's eye tumbles out along a steel track.
_ [E] Fixing every shadow when it's stared.
Night [D] train, _ _
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_ _ _ [F#m] night _ train.
_ _ _ _ [E] _ _ [B] _ _
_ _ _ [F#m] In the absence of a vision there are nightmares.
_ [G] And in the absence of compassion there is cancer.
_ [F#] We fly our way through the balances of mean streets.
[G#m] In the realm of the night train is a man. _ _ _ _ _ _
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