Song For Leaving - Brett Dennen

Like a southbound train

Here’s a song for leaving

Don’t you know the pain

It’s a part of the healing

Moon with a halo

Like a pearl in a peasant’s hand

Religion on the radio

Advertising a promised land

Everything that attaches

Someday falls apart

When the plan collapses

It can break your heart

Like a southbound train

This is a song for leaving

Don’t you know the pain

It’s a part of the healing

Like a southbound train

Here is a song for leaving

Don’t you know the pain

It’s a part of the healing

To the airport in the rain

Sadness seeping through

Leaving faith on a jet plane

Hurling through the blue

Love is the tear

That taught me to fall

Whispered in my ear

Soothing me to my soul

Like a southbound train

Here’s a song for leaving

Don’t you know the pain

It’s a part of the healing

Quiet constellations

I don’t walk through the night

Silent salutations

Under a southwestern sky

Battlegrounds behind me

Smoke in the trees

Memories to remind me

Puts my soul to ease

Like a southbound train

Here’s a song for leaving

Don’t you know the pain

It’s a part of the healing

Like a southbound train

This is a song for leaving

Don’t you know the pain

It’s a part of the healing

This is a train

Get on the train

Get on the train