Trans Siberian Express - Voyager

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