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Tears On The Rails

There's blood on the rails

And the train stands still

But the body's nowhere

And the crowd's had its fill

 

Nothing can be found at all

Seems like a puff of smoke

Disappeared without a trace

The crowd thinks it's a joke.

 

Who was it that laid there?

Waited for the train to come?

Noone knows the actual truth

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