Full blown silence in an empty room   A former bride and a former groom   A folding table and a folding chair   A folded hand of poker there      All new directions must go everywhere   Big round people in a cool little square   You can't cut it with a boat or a plane   Man it's gonna take a new train      You'll be leaving on a new train   Far away from this world of pain   And when you look out your window you'll see   Your home your baby and your family      No melted ice cube in a paper cup   Hell, you'll be happy you'll be all shook up   The friends that greet you will be simple and plain   When you step down from that new train      Collected volumes of history say   Man makes mistakes most everyday   The half a pound of chopped ground round   Is still a burger when it goes downtown      No faded photographs of yesterdays   Are in the books that I read these days   To fly away from that memory town   You must keep both your feet on the ground      'Cause you'll be leaving on a new train   Far away from this world of pain   And when you look out your window you'll see   Your home your baby and your family      No melted ice cube in a paper cup   Hell, you'll be happy you'll be all shook up   The friends that greet you will be simple and plain   When you step down from that new train      I'll be leaving on a new train   Far away from this world of pain   The friends that greet me will be simple and plain   When I step down from that new train   New train, new train