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  • Flaming steel swift as wind

    Wires hum the rails ring

    Smokestack burning fiery sparks

    Rise up to the stars

    Towns asleep by empty roads

    Churches rise from crooked roofs

    Cloaked in darkness nothing stirs

    Grow smaller darker disappear...

    Steam hissed up, the hot coals glowed

    The furnace blazed, the wheels they rolled

    On tracks of iron, straight and cold

    The silver moonlight danced

    The flames are in the fireman's eye

    Orange in the engines glow

    Gleaming pistons whirling cranks

    Wait for dawn, the rooster's crow

    --"Night Train to Lorca," the Pogues, c. 1989 Jem Finer

    February 7, 2007