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The Train Song

from The Simple Son by Chaim Bezalel

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I got the idea for this song while riding the train to Tel Aviv from Ashkelon, Israel. After recording it with my band, I added electronic music for which I wrote the score.

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I can’t explain
It’s like I’m on a train
I see the fields go by
I close my eyes
It’s like I’m hypnotized
I fall asleep for a while

Train is rocking
And my dreams unlocking
All my memories
Shifting places
And I’m seeing faces
From my history

Time just gets swifter
And I’m just a drifter
A comet approaching the sun
My orbit grows small
As I fall and I fall
And the years just rush by one by one.

Can’t stop your brain
And you can’t stop the train
And you can’t stop time
Life is sweet
But the days are fleet
It’s part of the design

Please be patient
Till we reach the station
As we surely shall
Enjoy the ride
Watch the countryside
That’s the rationale

And then it goes back
And it’s hard to keep track
Of where I was when I began
I am him inside
And I cannot divide
The child that is father to man.

credits

from The Simple Son, released December 8, 2020
music and lyrics by Chaim Bezalel
guitar and vocals - Chaim Bezalel
accordion - Ron Zentner
voice - Yonnah Ben Levy
percussion - Clay M. Thompson
electronic music - Chaim Bezalel

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Chaim Bezalel Stanwood, Washington

My mother had a collection of 78 rpm records of folk music and I became a folk music lover from a young age. I attended festivals and concerts, sat with Libba Cotten when she sang Freight Train. I learned to pick sitting in Washington Square as a teenager. However, I did not begin writing songs until my 50's. I am also a poet and artist. I live in Wasnhington State and in Israel. ... more

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