My heart is like this face
Half white
Half shadowy
I can choose to let you see
Can insist on keeping you see
Like a big circus
It makes you excited
Makes me fear
Afterwards I know
There will always be
Finite tenderness, infinite bitterness.
If you were a teardrop
In my eye.
For fear of losing you,
I would never cry.
And if the golden sun,
Should cease to shine its light,
Just one smile from you,
Would make my whole world bright.
If you miss the train i'm on,
you will know that i am gone
You can hear the whistle blow a hundred miles,
A hundred miles, a hundred miles,
a hundred miles, a hundred miles,
You can hear the whistle blow a hundred miles.
Lord i'm one, lord i'm two,
lord i'm three, lord i'm four,
Lord i'm 500 miles from my home.
500 miles, 500 miles, 500 miles, 500 miles
Lord i'm five hundred miles from my home.
Not a shirt on my back,
not a penny to my name
Lord i can't go a-home this a-way
This a-way, this a-way, this a-way, this a-way,
Lord i can't go a-home this a-way.
If you miss the train i'm on
you will know that i am gone
You can hear the whistle blow a hundred miles.