Like a jazz refrain the midnight train is calling
Hey, you'd best go soon, the late night moon is falling
Let the nightbirds whisper to themselves
This train pulls out at twelve
High tides breaking on the shores, church bell tolls

There's a train that leaves tonight
I might just ride on
Nothing here that makes me wanna stay
There's a train that leaves tonight
I might just ride away

I just can't hope to tell you 'bout the stillness and the quiet
'Bout the frozen fields so lonely and the train songs in the night
About the sounds of nothing moving, night fields all aglow
I simply got to leave you, my heart cries out to go

There's a train that leaves tonight
I might just ride on
Nothing here that makes me wanna stay
There's a train that leaves tonight
I might just ride away

There's a train that leaves tonight
I might just ride on
Nothing here that makes me wanna stay
There's a train that leaves tonight
I might just ride away