Del Paxton - Freight Train Metaphor Chords

[Verse 1]
          B
There's a freight train headed this way
get up off the ground get out of the way
        B
draw it up and push it away, up out of
the ground back into its place
 
 
[Chorus 1]
B
Right back into its place.
B
Right back into its place.
 
 
[Verse 2]
       B
Put it right back into its place
left underground, don't give it a name
         B
when you woke up still in a
 
daze was holding your
hand and you slipped
 
 
[Chorus 2]
B
Right back into its place.
B
Right back into its place.
 
 
[Chorus 3]
C#      D#m     F#
Time to make corrections
C#        D#m    F#
left some on the page
    C#      D#m        F#
the rest distorts the image
          C#               B
there was something in the way.
B
short me out.
 
 
[Verse 3]
B
Freight train headed this way get
up off the ground get out the way
        B
draw it out and push it away up out
of the ground back into its place
 
 
[Chorus 4]
B
Right back into its place.
B
Right back into its place.
 
 
[Chorus 5]
C#      D#m    F#
See you on the outside when
C#        D#m      F#
you don't have the shakes
C#       D#m     F#
meet you in your hometown
          C#
when the sky is
        B
turning grey
 
 
[Chorus 6]
C#     D#m    F#
Rising in the distance
   C#      D#m   F#
collapsing into space
  C# D#m
a compromised
  F#
resistance there was
C#               B
something in the way
      B
don't short me out
      B
don't short me out
      B
don't short me out
      B           B
don't short me out
 
 
[Bridge]
B
  Divided up and split
    F#        B
the difference past
                  F#
expiration forced into
             B
this position and I
                F#
will offer no resistance
B
  a shorted circuit well
  F#
into decomposition
         F#       E
when the ground begins
   B     F#
to shake take til
        E
there's nothing left
   B   F# E F# E F# E F# E
to take
 
 
[Outro]
F#    E
  The ground
begins to shake.
F#    E
  The ground
begins to shake.
F#    E
  The ground
begins to shake.
F#    E
  The ground
               F#
begins to shake.