http://www.wordnik.com/lists/tunie-night-train-to-lorca.xml By the Pogues, on the LP "Peace and Love." I don't know if it's the stark simplicity of the individual words or the evocative images conjured by their juxtaposition, but I simply love these lyrics.<br /><br />Across the <a href="/words/dark">dark</a> and <a href="/words/dusty">dusty</a> plain<br />Where <a href="/words/scars">scars</a> of old dry <a href="/words/rivers">rivers</a> run<br />Night <a href="/words/unfolds">unfolds</a>, a <a href="/words/coal black">coal black</a> <a href="/words/shroud">shroud</a><br />Across the hard and <a href="/words/stony">stony</a> ground<br /><br />Distant <a href="/words/stars">stars</a> shining bright<br />In the <a href="/words/cavern">cavern</a> of the night<br />All is still and silence <a href="/words/screams">screams</a><br />To the <a href="/words/thunder">thunder</a> of the Lorca <a href="/words/train">train</a><br /><br /><a href="/words/Flaming">Flaming</a> <a href="/words/steel">steel</a> <a href="/words/swift">swift</a> as wind<br /><a href="/words/Wires">Wires</a> <a href="/words/hum">hum</a> the <a href="/words/rails">rails</a> ring<br /><a href="/words/Smokestack">Smokestack</a> <a href="/words/burning">burning</a> <a href="/words/fiery">fiery</a> <a href="/words/sparks">sparks</a><br />Rise up to the stars<br /><br />Towns <a href="/words/asleep">asleep</a> by <a href="/words/empty">empty</a> roads<br /><a href="/words/Churches">Churches</a> rise from <a href="/words/crooked">crooked</a> roofs<br /><a href="/words/Cloaked">Cloaked</a> in darkness nothing stirs<br />Grow smaller darker <a href="/words/disappear">disappear</a><br /><br />(chorus)<br />See the <a href="/words/moon">moon</a> so still and <a href="/words/cold">cold</a><br />A <a href="/words/million">million</a> stars that shed no warmth<br />Your <a href="/words/nightmares">nightmares</a> all come out to play<br />In the <a href="/words/silver">silver</a> light<br />Wait for <a href="/words/sunrise">sunrise</a> in the east<br />Long <a href="/words/shadows">shadows</a> <a href="/words/crawl">crawl</a> across the plain<br />The <a href="/words/ghosts">ghosts</a> of night will disappear<br />And lay your fears to rest<br /><br /><a href="/words/Steam">Steam</a> <a href="/words/hissed">hissed</a> up, the hot <a href="/words/coals">coals</a> <a href="/words/glowed">glowed</a><br />The <a href="/words/furnace">furnace</a> <a href="/words/blazed">blazed</a>, the <a href="/words/wheels">wheels</a> they rolled<br />On <a href="/words/tracks">tracks</a> of <a href="/words/iron">iron</a>, straight and cold<br />The silver <a href="/words/moonlight">moonlight</a> <a href="/words/danced">danced</a><br /><br />The <a href="/words/flames">flames</a> are in the fireman's <a href="/words/eye">eye</a><br /><a href="/words/Orange">Orange</a> in the engine's <a href="/words/glow">glow</a><br /><a href="/words/Gleaming">Gleaming</a> <a href="/words/pistons">pistons</a> <a href="/words/whirling">whirling</a> <a href="/words/cranks">cranks</a><br />Wait for <a 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