Sleepwalking Lyrics

I've got faith in my legs
I trust in the chalk of my bones
I'm a woman a coyote and a tumbleweed
Rolling into dust at a leisurely speed
Some say I've got no direction
But the sun's passing shadows don't point home
So I ramble down the railroad in my slumber
Past the truck stop diners on the road
Where I can see my reflection in a greasy spoon
And in the face of every waitress wishing to howl at the moon
I've been sleepwalking down the tracks all night
All the way from Belle River to the Cincinnatti lights
Dreaming in my cap and slippers, marching down the line
Never wake a sleepwalker, let her take her time
There used to be monsters in my nightmares
Now I see my demons in the day
So I walk about the boondocks in the darkness
Let the moonlit garbage lead the way
I smell like engine oil and the tin-can streets
But I ain't no locomotive I ain't runnin out of steam A preacher told me I was born a sinner
And salvation was found in holy light
But I'm soiled with a dirty mouth and a dirty mind
And I hope my hands stay dirty 'til the day that I die
I've been sleepwalking down the tracks all night
All the way from mell river to the cincinnatti lights
Sleepin in my cabin slippers marching down the line
Never wake a sleepwalker, let him take his time
I've been working on the railroad all the live-long day
I've been working on the railroad to pass my time away
Can't you hear the whistle blowing, rise up so early in the morn
Can't you hear the whistle blowing, Dinah won't you blow your horn?
I've been sleepwalking down the tracks all night
All the way from mell river to the cincinnatti lights
Sleepin in my cabin slippers marching down the line
Never wake a sleepwalker, let me take my time

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