Freight Train Metaphor chords by Del Paxton

Chords with lyrics

• Difficulty: Intermediate

Key: F#F#


♫ Verse 1:
     BB
There's a freight train headed this way
get up off the ground get out of the way
    BB
draw it up and push it away, up out of
the ground back into its place


♫ Chorus 1:
BB
Right back into its place.
BB
Right back into its place.

♫ Verse 2:
    BB
Put it right back into its place
left underground, don't give it a name
     BB
when you woke up still in a

daze was holding your
hand and you slipped


♫ Chorus 2:
BB
Right back into its place.
BB
Right back into its place.


♫ Chorus 3:
C#C#   D#mD#m   F#F#
Time to make corrections
C#C#    D#mD#m  F#F#
left some on the page
  C#C#   D#mD#m    F#F#
the rest distorts the image
     C#C#        BB
there was something in the way.
BB
short me out.


♫ Verse 3:
BB
Freight train headed this way get
up off the ground get out the way
    BB
draw it out and push it away up out
of the ground back into its place

♫ Chorus 4:
BB
Right back into its place.
BB
Right back into its place.


♫ Chorus 5:
C#C#   D#mD#m  F#F#
See you on the outside when
C#C#    D#mD#m   F#F#
you don't have the shakes
C#C#    D#mD#m   F#F#
meet you in your hometown
     C#C#
when the sky is
    BB
turning grey


♫ Chorus 6:
C#C#   D#mD#m  F#F#
Rising in the distance
  C#C#   D#mD#m  F#F#
collapsing into space
 C#C# D#mD#m
a compromised
 F#F#
resistance there was
C#C#        BB
something in the way
   BB
don't short me out
   BB
don't short me out
   BB
don't short me out
   BB      BB
don't short me out


♫ Bridge:
BB
 Divided up and split
  F#F#    BB
the difference past
         F#F#
expiration forced into
       BB
this position and I
        F#F#
will offer no resistance
BB
 a shorted circuit well
 F#F#
into decomposition
     F#F#    E MajorE
when the ground begins
  BB   F#F#
to shake take til
    E MajorE
there's nothing left
  BB  F#F# E MajorE F#F# E MajorE F#F# E MajorE F#F# E MajorE
to take


♫ Outro:
F#F#  E MajorE
 The ground
begins to shake.
F#F#  E MajorE
 The ground
begins to shake.
F#F#  E MajorE
 The ground
begins to shake.
F#F#  E MajorE
 The ground
        F#F#
begins to shake.


Chords Instructions:
F#F# - 244322
C#C# - x46664
D#mD#m - x68876
BB -  x24442
E MajorE -  022100