Lyrics Just Like This Train - Live 1995 - Joni Mitchell

Don't cheer, I have to be tuning in
We don't have time when, playing this is like Las Vegas here
We got, there're gonna cut me off in seconds
See I got this Irish ear you know I hear 4:46 and then
We're supposed to be hearing the same frequency
As the light bulb humming
They-they go 4:40 here in America
But my ear is still like back in Ireland
In another century

I'm always running behind the time
Just like this train
Shaking into town with the brakes complaining

I used to count lovers like railroad cars
I counted them on my side
Lately I don't count on nothing
I just let things slide

The station master's shuffling cards
Boxcars are banging in the yards
Jealous lovin' will make you crazy
If you can't find your goodness
'Cause you lost your heart
'Cause you lost your heart

I went looking for a cause or
A strong cat without claws or
Any reason to resume
And I found this empty seat
In this crowded waiting room
I found everybody waiting

Your old man sleeping on his bags
Women with that teased up kind of hair
Kids with the jitters in their legs
And those wide, wide open stares
And the kids got cokes and chocolate bars
There's a thin man smoking a fat cigar
Jealous lovers, gonna make me crazy
If you can't find your goodness
'Cause you've lost your heart
'Cause you've lost your heart

Well I've got this berth and this roll down blind
I've got this fold up sink
And these rocks and these cactus going by
And a bottle of German wine to drink
Settle down into the clickety-clack
With the clouds and the stars to read

Dreaming of the pleasure I'm going to have
Watching your hairline recede, my vain darling
Watching your hair and clouds and stars
I'm rocking away in a sleeping car
Oh, jealous lovin's bound to make me crazy

I can't find my goodness
I lost my heart
Oh, sour grapes
Because I lost my heart