Love Is a Train Station

from Pleasant by Request by Alex Rake and the Leaves

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in my heart, there's a tunnel
in that tunnel, there's a train
takes my blood through the darkness
to that white, final light in my brain
and it keeps me alive and thinking
but for what? i can't explain...

but Love is a train station
and who knows where we'll be taken?
Love is a train station
so meet me there
i'll be waiting

this bench just keeps me sitting
where the strangers are giving me the eye
i need to find a new direction
but the thought of moving makes me cry
and my ticket tells me that i'm traveling
but it won't give a good reason why...

but Love is a train station
and who knows where we'll be taken?
Love is a train station
so meet me there
i'll be waiting

and every time i look out the window
i hope i spy someone like you
because i'm locked up in my tower like rapunzel
but i'd let my hair down
if a prince would just pass through!

before you, i was a child
my face a mess, my boots too big
you cleaned me up, and then you scalped me
made me a man who wears a wig
so knowledge is a crashing rocket
so faith is a leaky oil rig...

but Love is a train station
and who knows where we'll be taken?
Love is a train station
so meet me there
i'll be waiting

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from Pleasant by Request, released September 13, 2019

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Alex Rake and the Leaves Mission, British Columbia

Alex Rake is a songwriter, poet, and playwright from the Fraser Valley and the Leaves are his friends.

They yell and improvise all over troubadour songs.

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