Nothing Special - Mark gillespie

All those black cats talk about

Is a train coming round the bend

And when it comes

It’s going to be the end

It’s the special that comes at midnight

To get the weary and the lame

And you only get one chance

It won’t be back again

And it’s got a white light up the front

And behind you can hear the bell

And pretty soon it’s going to take me

Out of this Hell

Because when you’re breaking your back

They tell you you’ve got to smile

And make it all worthwhile

Yeah, but I’m on the right track

It’s just a mile, it’s just a while away

I think I hear that train a’coming

I’ve got my ticket right here in my hand

And soon I’ll be in the Promised Land

And I think I hear the Gospel Band

Get on board the Midnight Special

Get on board the Midnight Special

But what about the sinner man?

Well it had tongues of fire

That were climbing higher

And wheels like a dynamo

It grew so big

Lord I grew so low

And all around the ground it shook

But they didn’t even look

And it’s starting to rain

I’ve got to go back again

Because the train left me behind

Ain’t nothing special

(get on board the Midnight Special)

There ain’t nothing special

(get on board the Midnight Special

Get on board)

There’s nothing special in this world

Ain’t nothing special

(oo oo no Midnight Special)

No Midnight Special

(oo oo no Midnight Special)

There’s nothing special in this world

Yeah

And its light like a fire glowed

And steam like frozen snow

And it passed me by

And I watched it go

It grew so big I grew so low

And just like my life

It comes and goes

And thorns always growing with the rose

So I cut off my face to spite my nose

I cut off my legs just to spite my toes

And I cut off my chains

And I took off my woes

And I took off my worries

Yeah but out of the ashes

No Phoenix rose, girl

(get on board the Midnight Special)

There ain’t nothing special

(get on board the Midnight Special

Get on board)

Hey, there’s nothing special in this world

There ain’t nothing special

(oo oo no Midnight Special)

No Midnight Special

(oo oo no Midnight Special)

There’s nothing special in this world