Original artwork, not a still
Something Wicked This Way Comes · 1962
Those trains and their grieving sounds were lost forever between stations, not remembering where they had been, not guessing where they might go, exhaling their last pale breaths over the horizon, gone. So it was with all trains, ever.
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
The passage mourns trains that disappeared somewhere between stations, with their sorrowful sounds fading along with them. They keep no memory of where they came from and no idea where they were heading, only a last pale exhalation over the horizon. The speaker says this was the fate of every train.
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