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Artist: Utah Phillips
Canonical path: /utah-phillips/starlight-on-the-rails
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Starlight On The Rails
Read Starlight On The Rails lyrics by Utah Phillips on LyroVerse, with linked artist context and related song paths.
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Starlight On The Rails
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I can hear the whistle blowin'
High and lonesome as can be
Outside the rain is softly fallin'
Tonight it's fallin' just for me
Looking back along the road I've traveled
All the miles could tell a million tales
Each year is like some rolling freight train
And cold as starlight on the rails
I think about wife and family
A home and all the things it means
The black smoke trailin' out behind me
Is like a string of broken dreams
Looking back along the road I've traveled
All the miles could tell a million tales
Each year is like some rolling freight train
And cold as starlight on the rails
A man who lives out on the highway
Is like a clock that can't tell time
A man who spends his life just rambling
Is like a song without a rhyme
Looking back along the road I've traveled
All the miles could tell a million tales
Each year is like some rolling freight train
And cold as starlight on the rails
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