CATCH THE TRAIN
performed on:
Another brief, ghostly number from the delicate second half of ON SUCH A NIGHT, this again features just Nick, here on an electric guitar, belting it out wistfully while his axe is a weapon of bitterness. Critic Greil Marcus said that "Catch the Train" was "Parker's last competent moment as a songwriter. His line 'We'll start again' is his goodbye."
when I left her room that day
I wished it could be different
two men at once or maybe a million
I want to live everyone's life
experience everything
that can be felt
but now I've got to say goodbye
I've got to catch the train
and embrace my lover
we'll start again when I catch my train