Lyrics
The Silver Meteor breathes its final steam, September of '68.
I'm sitting on the depot bench, just learning how to wait.
The night air's thick with jasmine and the coming of the fall.
The headlamp cuts a hole in the dark, and that is all.
[Chorus]
And some things only die when they stop making noise.
An iron memory where there used to be a voice.
The shaking in the ground goes still.
It always does. It always will.
[Verse 2]
The porter, Mr. Alston, he polishes a brass rail.
He doesn't know he's buffing out the last word of the tale.
"That whistle's da heartbeat," my gram used to say.
Just a tremor in the ribs that keeps the ghosts away.
[Chorus]
'Cause some things only die when they stop making noise.
An iron memory where there used to be a voice.
The shaking in the ground goes still.
It always does. It always will.
[Bridge]
No announcement's made. No bell is rung for history.
Just a low sigh of the brakes, and the turning of a key.
And a silence that will settle in the salt-cured wood and weeds.
[Outro]
An iron memory.
Yeah, an iron memory.
About Tracy Holloway
Tracy Holloway was raised on the salt marshes of St. Helena Island, learning Gullah folk songs at her grandmother's knee. A scholarship took her to Berklee College of Music, but she dropped out after professors tried to train the 'provincial' South Carolina grit out of her voice. Now back home in Beaufort, she shucks oysters to pay off her student loans and writes songs about the people and…
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