Freight Train for a Song

It started on a front porch summer night
In an old swing with the full moon on the rise You stopped my heart right in its tracks
I knew there was no turning back this time
We heard the freight train whistle in the dark It left behind a fire from the sparks
Forever at our fingertips
Love like this is just so hard to find
And I would leave the porch light on
And every night you came back home
To that old swing where you and I belong You would love me late and long
And lie beside me ‘til the dawn
With nothing but a freight train for a song
Easy autumn days of innocence
With dreams that lovers all think they invent When did you stop believing in me?
How could you be leaving me so soon?
It ended on a cold December morning You left me standing by the kitchen door Train came through when it got dark
It left no spark beneath the winter moon
I can’t make you come back home
Or make you love me if you won’t
Or convince you of the right above the wrong So I won’t beg, no I’ll be strong
But I still have the porch light on
And nothing but a freight train for a song
All I’ve got’s a freight train for a song