The Slow Decline of the London Necropolis Railway
from Telegrams Elapsing by Boxcar Aldous Huxley
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lyrics
When the last train rolls out of Brookwood
the gates shut heavy behind.
Though our eyes gleam white,
they betray all our secrets and sorrows tonight.
Out on Westminster Bridge, there’s a man
all blackened and bruised,
and we meet by the side of the road
and silently sell him his coal back, unused.
Our railway’s history’s a dark and storied one,
and for an engine room, a crematorium!
Did you taste the acrid smoke upon your tongue?
Did you sweat to schlep the empty boxes one by one?
In our squalid masquerade we played our parts.
I, the engine driver, stoked the furnace with a heavy heart.
Here’s to you, my final infernal, my passenger true.
When the smoke clears, only we here will know
where this railway line’s leading to.
the gates shut heavy behind.
Though our eyes gleam white,
they betray all our secrets and sorrows tonight.
Out on Westminster Bridge, there’s a man
all blackened and bruised,
and we meet by the side of the road
and silently sell him his coal back, unused.
Our railway’s history’s a dark and storied one,
and for an engine room, a crematorium!
Did you taste the acrid smoke upon your tongue?
Did you sweat to schlep the empty boxes one by one?
In our squalid masquerade we played our parts.
I, the engine driver, stoked the furnace with a heavy heart.
Here’s to you, my final infernal, my passenger true.
When the smoke clears, only we here will know
where this railway line’s leading to.
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from Telegrams Elapsing,
released January 6, 2015
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Boxcar Aldous Huxley Bristol, UK
This is music rooted in the past, but not a past that ever actually happened. One might hear Balkan melody, Old-time banjo and Brass Band pomp wrapped up in Tin Pan Alley melodrama. These are songs that speak of such esoteric topics as abandoned funeral trains, Messianic visions in the Canadian wilderness, and ill-fated amateur space exploration. ... more
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Mar 2012 -
Aug 2011
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