waiting for the ghost train

Madness

A straw headed woman, and a barrel chested man,
A pocket full of posies with a hat brim full of sand,
Ooh - waiting for the train that never comes,

A dog chasing the tumbleweeds, across the sandy floor,
That drift along the platform, through the ticket office door,
Ooh - waiting for the train that never comes,
Ooh - waiting for the train that never comes,

But don t tell me there s nothing coming, you don t fool me,
I hear the ghost train rumbling along the tracks - set them free,
And I hear them,
It s black and white don t try to hide,
It s black and white don t try to hide,

The station master s writing with a piece of orange chalk,
A hundred cancellations, still no one wants to walk,
Keep the hungry children from the skeletons in the back,
Paid to keep an eye out for the gipsy caravan,
Ooh - waiting for the train that never comes,
Ooh - waiting for the train that never comes,

I hear the ghost train rumbling along the tracks - set them free,
And I hear them,
It s black and white don t try to hide,
It s black and white don t try to hide,
It s black and white don t try to hide,
It s black and white don t try to hide,
It s black and white (don t try),
It s black and white (don t try),
It s black and white don t try to hide,
It s black and white don t try to hide,
And I hear them,
It s black and white don t try to hide,
It s black and white don t try to hide...