Steve Louw - Train Don’t Run

The official video for “Train Don’t Run“, created by Jacqui van Staden From the album “Headlight Dreams“, released 7 May 2021. Stream/download “Headlight Dreams“: STEVE LOUW ONLINE THE STORY BEHIND THE SONG My grandfather was a railroadman and in the 1930s my father rode trains looking for work. To me, trains symbolise our attempts to bend nature to our will – and we’re seeing that trying to do that will never work. Silence will always return to the plains, the wind will blow, tracks will crumble and the earth will breathe again. This song has the wide open plains in it; dry cracked earth and a broken land. The song builds from a driving acoustic guitar and hypnotic bassline to a haunting guitar solo by Rob McNeeley. The production (by Kevin Shirley) brings out the relentlessness of the song and of what we inflict on our planet. TRAIN DON’T RUN (Recorded February 27, 2020) The wind blows across empty plains That hold so many bones The rails glow years since the rain Horses roam on broken stones Train don’t run round here no more Train is gone for us all Put down a coin on the track Saw silver turn through black Seeds thrown all come back Haunt the earth broken and cracked Train don’t run round here no more Train won’t come for us all I can help you cross if you’ll let me Spirits roam across this broken land What’s been lost you can see Count the cost can’t understand Train don’t run round here no more Train is gone for us all