Take Me Away

歌詞

that's how they found him he was howing at the moon sitting right there on the rallway tracks and the train was coming there was a string of wild flowers draped around his collar and when he saw the men were coming for him well he began to holler he cried take me away take me away but the men could not be sure if he was talking to them or talking to the oncoming train his mama she watched rellgion on the tv each day from dawn to dusk and at night when she'd hear him howling well she'd cry out to jesus for years she begged the sweet redeemer to heal her crazy son until finally she just gave up on miracles and called the men to come she told them take him away take my son away 'cause after 20 long years I have simply run out prayers to pray but as he stood to fight the men from the other side of the rallway bed he thought he heard the calling voice of an old friend he thought long dead but when he turned away from the men he found a stranger calling him yet as if he knew that man he smiled and raised his hand as he stopped into the golden sun of the headlight of the oncoming train and as he did he cried out to the stranger cried out lasttime take me away take me away and to this day in this little town not a soul knows what he was trying to say all them years of shouting take me away no no one knows what he was trying to say or who that atranger was