train dreams

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

I ve seen a grizzly big as a house
Walk across an open plain
Heard of a boy called Elvis something
Whose voice could drive young girls insane
I ve seen a man from a mile away
Shoot a bobcat through the brain, but

Lately, I ve been having dreams
Crazy dreams I can t explain
A woman standing in a field of flowers
And a screaming locomotive train
Crazy dreams that go on for hours
And I can t begin to tell you how that feels

I ve seen an elk with twisted antlers
Throw bright lightning cross the sky
Seen a man with a broken curse
Leap from a bridge and try to fly
And I ve seen a boy who was a dog
Who became a man who forgot to die

Lately, I ve been having dreams
Crazy dreams I can t explain
A woman standing in a field of flowers
And a screaming locomotive train
Crazy dreams that go on for hours
And I can t begin to tell you how that feels

The space that connects me where I am now
To the place where I ll one day be
It s measured in the words that we speak
And the strange and wondrous things I ve seen
It s measured in truth, it s measured in love
Measured in a tendency to pain
It s measured by a girl in a field of flowers
Screaming, Dream of a midnight train
This has been going on for years
Years and years and years and years
And years and years and years and years
I can t begin to tell you how that feels