[Intro — stomp-clap alone, a slide guitar wail, a distant train whistle] [Verse 1 — low, dreamy, sparse] River running uphill tonight Crows are singing bass Scarecrow hitching on the highway With a suitcase full of space Fiddler playing on a rooftop With a bow made out of rain Mud is pulling at my boots But I hear that coming train [Chorus — heavy guitars crash in] Thunder train (thunder train!) Rolling through the pouring rain Thunder train (thunder train!) Ain't nobody stays the same (Ooh, thunder train) [Verse 2 — low, dreamy, sparse] Left my worries on the porch step Left my shadow on the wall Every weight they tried to hang on me Just couldn't hold at all Lightning writing out my name Across the cloudy sky I ain't where I'm going yet But I'm going, that's no lie [Chorus — heavy] Thunder train (thunder train!) Rolling through the pouring rain Thunder train (thunder train!) Ain't nobody stays the same (Ooh, thunder train) [Bridge — sludgy slide guitar solo, then a stomp-clap breakdown] Stomp (Stomp!) Clap (Clap!) Never looking back (Ooh — falsetto rising over the guitars) [Final Chorus — heaviest moment] Thunder train (thunder train!) Rolling through the pouring rain Thunder train (thunder train!) Ain't nobody stays the same (Ooh, thunder train) [Outro — the train roars past and fades into crickets, one last slide note] (Spoken) All aboard.
