The Crossing.

[josh]

Just a new song I wrote tonight. Got back to this dreadful place where my family happens to live and is forced to call home.

So here's a new post by none other! By the one and only! Josh McNeil!

Enjoy.
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This, is a song with a train in its midst,
it carries me onward and I thank it for this,
and I wouldn't remember what I left long behind,
no I wouldn't remember what I left behind.

When I was a kid it didn't seem you could go,
anywhere without stopping at a crossing to and fro.
Dreamt I woke up one night and there was a train!
Running through my room and keeping cries, away.

All it took was a nickel or a dime to escape,
it was all in reach without time to hesitate,
I put my flag at the crossing and waited for the whistle,
the sound and screech of iron on rusted iron,
the sound and screech of iron on rusted iron.

Follow the path through the night with a craze,
remember to follow the tracks with a place,
a place that leaves it all behind and doesn't wait for much,
a place that leaves all behind with a tender trust.

Dreamt this night an adventure crossed my path,
and it asked me to follow him on down the track.
It took me along and left my room with a bellow,
it cried out these words of a place to follow,
and I'll remember it for a time, for a time.


"Come along here now and reach for the sunrise,
come along take the whistle with a whisper and hope,
don't forget to put your flag up with the time,
at the crossing for your whispered hope with a dime.
And we'll leave it forgotten for tomorrow,
and carry on down the line wishing onward,
and getting a story with a line, and a hook,
and getting the story with that line and hook."


Lights scorching paths to follow and hope,
and screeching stops that let you go wander.
It keeps me on the right path of long forgotten sorrow,
and I guess I could trouble it for more with a dollar,
and I guess I could trouble it for more again.

Here comes the singing machine, just around the bend,
it wants me to follow it right to the end.
It screams at me to holler a decision and challenge,
and doesn't wait to long to reach for the end,
and doesn't take long to reach an end,
it doesn't take long to reach the end.

The end.

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I dig this, alot. Partially inspired by a story my grandfather told me while I was home.

Stay inspired.
Much peace.

[vermilition]

i was into it at the start i realy was
i would go as far as to say that i was singing in my head
but the verses got to long
4 lines a verse would do
but i couldnt keep pace with so many lines

[josh]

lol. No worries dude, your attention span would stay with it much longer if you could actually hear me singing it with music set to it.

[vermilition]

no offence but i dont think ill bother... ;D

[josh]

Yeah, well it's not as if I was saying listen to it or else.

[Miss Paradox]

Beautiful. I love it.

I have the feeling it wouldn't fit into most musical categories though-- perhaps if your creative enough you could get a slow but overly lengthy Alternative rock piece but I'd go for country <3

But it is long and I like it enough. I don't like a few pieces here and there but that's kinda my style which is:: anything in even slightly poetic form is awful.

I'm not into that too much-- but it's well done in genera. =]