LaboratoryRats - Devil's Train

I started writing this back in 2018 and I've been sitting on the lyrics wanting to give them some chords. Now I actually feel confident enough playing piano and singing to have recorded it.
I'm confident this won't be the last time I record it.

Lyrics

I have this dream now and then
That I finally find my way on down to see the Earth again
And it rains and I cry as I feel it on my skin
And when I’m home my Mom will ask me where I’ve been

Mother, I have seen the Milky Way
In constellations no one else sighted
I’m trying hard to find the words to say
How my imagination was ignited

By the glowing trail of gases
In a comet’s frothy wake
Each new star my capsule passes
Might just cause my heart to break

I’ve sailed over moons with icy dunes
And giants with dusty rings
Seen how a seismic plume of smoke balloons
Heard how an aurora sings

I’ve seen a solar flare
And weathered winds of every kind you won’t believe
But nothing can compare 
To an atmosphere of air that I can breathe

I have this dream now and then
That I finally find my way on down to see the Earth again
And it rains and I cry as I feel it on my skin
Ans when I’m home my Mom will ask me where I’ve been

Mother, I have seen the Milky Way
But I’ve seen sorrow too and had to fight it
I miss you more with every passing day
And fears begin to creep in uninvited

Oh, but just because I feel them
Doesn’t mean they take control
And I found an inner power
In the hours that they stole

I’ve learned how to build a doorway 
Every time I hit a wall
And I can look upon the stars’ array
Okay with feeling small

I don’t know what this all is worth
There’s so much work that I have left to do
But more than anything I miss about the Earth 
I’m really missing you

I have this dream now and then
That I finally find my way on down to see the Earth again
And it rains and I cry as I feel it on my skin
Ans when I’m home my Mom will ask me where I’ve been

Earth again
Lyrics

I have this dream now and then
That I finally find my way on down to see the Earth again
And it rains and I cry as I feel it on my skin
And when I’m home my Mom will ask me where I’ve been

Mother, I have seen the Milky Way
In constellations no one else sighted
I’m trying hard to find the words to say
How my imagination was ignited

By the glowing trail of gases
In a comet’s frothy wake
Each new star my capsule passes
Might just cause my heart to break

I’ve sailed over moons with icy dunes
And giants with dusty rings
Seen how a seismic plume of smoke balloons
Heard how an aurora sings

I’ve seen a solar flare
And weathered winds of every kind you won’t believe
But nothing can compare 
To an atmosphere of air that I can breathe

I have this dream now and then
That I finally find my way on down to see the Earth again
And it rains and I cry as I feel it on my skin
Ans when I’m home my Mom will ask me where I’ve been

Mother, I have seen the Milky Way
But I’ve seen sorrow too and had to fight it
I miss you more with every passing day
And fears begin to creep in uninvited

Oh, but just because I feel them
Doesn’t mean they take control
And I found an inner power
In the hours that they stole

I’ve learned how to build a doorway 
Every time I hit a wall
And I can look upon the stars’ array
Okay with feeling small

I don’t know what this all is worth
There’s so much work that I have left to do
But more than anything I miss about the Earth 
I’m really missing you

I have this dream now and then
That I finally find my way on down to see the Earth again
And it rains and I cry as I feel it on my skin
And when I’m home my Mom will ask me where I’ve been

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ogopogo

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Lyrics:
I am learning the steps, day after day
Dancing with doors and the rules they obey 
But the music evolves in unpredictable ways 
In my spiraling out ever lengthening stay 

In the city where it always rains 
Where the edges of bridges call your name 
A shifting anatomy of streets and veins 

Each day I unwind, one new piece at a time
Some grisly scene, written with me in mind
My hopeful hearts solved the puzzle this time
Though it’s foolish to try to do more than survive

In the city, where it always rains 
Where the soil and the water call out your name 
Intractably trapped and enraped in the game

I claw the walls till nails bend back 
Play though I know the deck is stacked 
Each time i’m crushed, still reach for that 
Illusion of a chance

In the city where it always rains 
And evening streets forget your name 
And you’ve lost every place from whence you came

Am I an insect on the skin
Of a creature I cannot hope to begin
To understand or find a reason for 
A city not made, not built, but born 

It’s a curious kind of bloodless hope
Burning when I slip back down the slope
Again, and again, and again and again
Can’t run from where you’ve always been

In the city where is always rains 
The abyss and the tower call your name 
Again, again, again, again
Can’t run from where you always been

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