Lyrics to
Just Like This Train

This version of Just Like This Train was released by Joni Mitchell in 1974.

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I’m always running behind the time
Just like this train
Shaking into town
With the brakes complainin’

I used to count lovers like railroad cars
I counted them on my side
Lately I don’t count on nothing
I just let things slide

The station master’s shuffling cards
Boxcars are banging in the yards
Jealous lovin’ll make you crazy
If you can’t find your goodness
Cause you lost your heart

I went looking for a cause
Or a strong cat without claws
Or any reason to resume
And I found this empty seat
In this crowded waiting room
Everybody waiting

Old man sleeping on his bags
Women with that teased up kind of hair
Kids with the jitters in their legs
And those wide wide open stares
And the kids got cokes & chocolate bars
There’s a thin man smoking a fat cigar
Jealous lovin’ll make you crazy
If you can’t find your goodness
Cause you’ve lost your heart

What are you going to do now
You’ve got no one to give your love to

Well I’ve got this berth & this roll down blind
I’ve got this fold up sink
And these rocks
And these cactus going by
And a bottle of German wine to drink
Settle down into the clickety clack
With the clouds & the stars to read
Dreaming of the pleasure I’m gonna have
Watching your hairline recede, my vain darling

Watching your hair & clouds & stars
I’m rocking away in a sleeping car
Cause this jealous lovin’s bound to make me
Crazy
I can’t find my goodness
I lost my heart
Oh sour grapes
Because I lost my heart

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When you decide to study the lyrics to Just Like This Train, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1974 song by Joni Mitchell. Some of the lyrics to Just Like This Train have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Joni Mitchell and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

You can understand the lyrics to Just Like This Train if you take apart the structure of the words. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to Just Like This Train" means the words set to the music of Just Like This Train, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Joni Mitchell. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to Just Like This Train and the lyrics to Just Like This Train are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Joni Mitchell who came here looking just for the lyrics to Just Like This Train, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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