Tombstone Lyrics

 (Jem Finer)  
  
 The night is dark, the moon is full
 Across the blood red plain
 Every step and every breath  
 Brings me nearer home  
 The spirits watch me on my way  
 They whisper on the wind  
 And when the dawn lights up the sky
 I'll see my land again 
  
 A hot wind blows the scrub and dust
 across the barren land 
 Trees stand bare like skeletons 
 The mountains all torn down  
 The water holes are dry as bones
 No birds are singing now  
 And faraway a city stands 
 Tombst
  
 Night Train to Lorca 
 (Jem Finer)
  
 Across the dark and dusty plain 
 Where scars of old dry rivers run  
 Night unfolds, a coal black shroud 
 Across the hard and stony ground
  
 Distant stars shining bright 
 In the cavern of the night
 All is still and silence screams
 To the thunder of the Lorca train  
  
 Flaming steal swift as wind  
 Wires hum the rails ring  
 Smokestack burning fiery sparks 
 Rise up to the stars
  
 Towns asleep by empty roads  
 Churches rise from crooked roofs
 Cloaked in darkness nothing stirs  
 Grow smaller darker disappear
  
 See the moon so still and cold  
 A million stars that shed no warmth
 Your nightmares all come out to play  
 In the silver light 
  
 Wait for sunrise in the east 
 Long shadows crawl across the plain
 The ghosts of night will disappear 
 And lay your fears to rest
  
 Steam hissed up, the hot coals glowed 
 The furnace blazed, the wheels they rolled  
 On tracks of iron, straight and cold  
 The silver moonlight danced  
  
 The flames are in the fireman's eye
 Orange in the engines glow
 Gleaming pistons whirling cranks
 Wait for dawn the rooster's crow