The train is leaving

The train is leaving Lyrics By Walter Zenko Verse 1 I was young when they sent me travelling, One reporter chasing truth, From New York into a restless world, Still carrying my youth. I thought I'd write about tomorrow, Send the story home each night. I packed my bag and took my notebook, Certain I knew wrong from right. *The train is leaving.* Verse 2 London hurried past my window, Paris disappeared in rain, Rome was fading into evening, Berlin on a midnight train. Warsaw vanished in the distance, Then the eastern morning came. Drones were circling over Moscow, Киев burning once again. *The train is leaving.* Chorus Different capitals, same confusion, Different voices, same refrain. I cross borders looking for answers, And find the same old human pain. Another station, another country, Another reason people fear. I came here looking for the answers, Now I'm frightened by what I hear. *The train is leaving.* Verse 3 Sirens crossed a thousand rooftops, Families hurried underground. A school stood open to the weather, Broken glass lay all around. Photographs beneath the rubble, Ash was falling like the snow. I came here looking for the answers. Now I'm not sure what I know. Verse 4 South to Cairo, east to Delhi, Morning broke in old Beijing. Tokyo rushed beneath the neon, Seoul was waking into spring. Another border, another language, Another night without much sleep. Everywhere the world keeps turning, With its anger running deep. *The train is leaving.* Verse 5 Jerusalem beneath the sunset, Beirut before the dawn. Children sleeping in the shelters, Then another building gone. A father searching through the rubble, A mother calling out a name. No flag can make her sorrow different. Every mother's grief's the same. Verse 6 One night somewhere between two borders, I asked myself what no one said: "Is the world really changing, Or just turning back instead?" Darkened villages passed beside me, Searchlights crossed the winter sky. The train kept running through the darkness. I couldn't tell you why. *The train is leaving.* Verse 7 I had started out believing, Notebook open, camera packed, Certain facts would lead to answers, Certain truth would answer back. But the farther that I travelled, The less certain truth became. Every border changed the language, But the sorrow stayed the same. Verse 8 And where is God among the ruins? Where is God when children cry? Perhaps He's calling through the madness, But rage is louder than the sky. Perhaps heaven hasn't left us. Perhaps we simply cannot hear. Perhaps God waits inside the silence, Underneath the sound of fear. *The train is leaving.* Final Chorus Different capitals, same confusion, Different flags, one human race. I crossed the world to understand it And found myself in every face. I don't know where we're going. I don't know where this journey ends. History is moving with us Around another darkened bend. *The train is leaving.* Outro Another city falls behind me, Another border comes in view. Tomorrow's headline waits somewhere, And I know what I must do. *The train is leaving.* And through this wounded, raging world, I still believe in peace.