This is a Colma Train Tonight we sing like bullets in the night sky Old intersections so clear I can hear them float right by When all we wanted isn't what we wanted at all My bracelet locked on and my plaque on the wall I will learn to miss the streetcorner socialists When the meds let me dream I dream about all of this City gloom watches on as they peddle revolution I lie to the nurses as I'm lying here lucent I had a dream about peace in the valley The night before last with her name on my tongue I've touched every mile from New York to Miami And I sang to her image as I drove out my run I was 20 years old, I didn't understand She told me there were others, I can smell her on your hands I will learn to miss the automated meter maids When the docs set me free I'll make my nest in the barricades Metal souls afloat with their wands in our waters Bathing in the ashes of our city's fathers Their streets and their buildings will outlast us all The light rail turnstiles pick us up as fall The pedestrians all come home again A microchip bellows 'oh captain my captain, the wind's picking up and you know where we're going' I had a dream about peace in the valley The night before last with her name on my tongue I've touched every mile from New York to Miami And I sang to her image as I drove out my run This is a colma train This is a colma train This is a colma train The graveyard city will bear our names