[05:15.00]Catch a train direct to death
[05:15.00]Glide where wheels and rails caress
[05:15.00]Hear the last taboos expressed
[05:15.00]In language looted and compressed
[05:15.00]Abandon this world for the next
[05:15.00]Cross the great plain of forgetfulness
[05:15.00]Trans Siberian Express
[05:15.00]Life on earth is short at best
[05:15.00]The cities are a game of chess
[05:15.00]Copper domes and statuettes
[05:15.00]Victories with marble breasts
[05:15.00]Leave your burden with the rest
[05:15.00]Watch the sleepers phosphoresce
[05:15.00]Trans Siberian Express
[05:15.00]Rich man leave your wealthiness
[05:15.00]Wanderer, your solemn dress
[05:15.00]Seafarer, the sea's caress
[05:15.00]Beowulf, your angriness
[05:15.00]Time to take a second guess
[05:15.00]Time to make a pact with death
[05:15.00]Trans Siberian Express
[05:15.00]The world is long, there is no consolation
[05:15.00]For those who join at the end of the line
[05:15.00]Through the train the four winds blow
[05:15.00]The arctic and the sirocco
[05:15.00]Stalactite and stalagmite
[05:15.00]Stalag camp and satellite
[05:15.00]Pass the captives on death row
[05:15.00]The gulag archipelago
[05:15.00]The skulls of reindeer in the snow
[05:15.00]The longboat drifts, the dead float slow
[05:15.00]Frightened wolves, nowhere to go
[05:15.00]Find winding cloths of sleet and snow
[05:15.00]The sleeping kings of long ago
[05:15.00]Deep beneath Ben Bulben grow
[05:15.00]Drifts are shifted by the plough
[05:15.00]Like waves that break against the prow
[05:15.00]How do you like your blue-eyed boy now
[05:15.00]Mr Death?
[05:15.00]Before the crocus cloaked the steppes
[05:15.00]Before the tadpoles and the nests
[05:15.00]Jack Frost screamed, his voice so hoarse
[05:15.00]The signalmen were blown off course
[05:15.00]They passed Attila on his horse
[05:15.00]Passed the Visigoths and Norse
[05:15.00]Villages with Viking forts
[05:15.00]And knew not where they were
[05:15.00]The world is long, there is no consolation
[05:15.00]For those who join at the end of the line
[05:15.00]The skeletons were at the feast
[05:15.00]Before the dreams of ancient Greece
[05:15.00]Before the shaman and the priest
[05:15.00]Jason and the Golden Fleece
[05:15.00]Before the Dead Sea Scrolls released
[05:15.00]Their meaning or the experts pieced together
[05:15.00]The epic of Gilgamesh
[05:15.00]Trans Siberian Express
[05:15.00]Don't cry for me I never cried for you
[05:15.00]Just left without the name
[05:15.00]Of the place I'm going to
[05:15.00]Left without so much as a whisper
[05:15.00]To remind you
[05:15.00]I'm travelling to forget you
[05:15.00]And to find you
[05:15.00]The world is long, there is no consolation
[05:15.00]For those who join at the end of the line
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