Lyrics to
Railroad

This version of Railroad was released by Status Quo in 1971.

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Railroad she left me standing on a line
Railroad she’s really leaving me this time
Leaving on the midnight train
Leaving never gonna come back again

I’m living alone
A place of my own
A bed a chair and one back door
Something went wrong
With the words to my song
And now she ain’t around no more
It was something she said
As she laid on my bed
Six or seven hours ago
I guess I was wrong
I really didn’t think she would go

Railroad she left me standing on a line
Railroad she’s really leaving me this time
Leaving on the midnight train
Leaving never gonna come back again

Her face was always smiling
Guess she was always laughing at me
I said her face was always smiling
Guess she was always laughing at me
If I’d realised
I’d be less suprised
To find that she was laughing at me

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About Lyrics and Railroad by Status Quo

The lyrics for Railroad are made up of the words, verses and background chorus for the popular 1971 song by Status Quo. Like a lot of songs, the lyrics to Railroad have both direct meanings and metaphorical context hidden within the song's words. All of the meanings are only truly known by the creators of the lyrics for Railroad - Status Quo and any of the writers who worked with them on the song.

If you have an interest in the structure of words and phrases, you can dissect the lyrics to Railroad by Status Quo in multiple ways. 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 Railroad" means the words set to the music of Railroad, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Status Quo. 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 Railroad and the lyrics to Railroad are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Status Quo who came here looking just for the lyrics to Railroad, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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