In case you don’t know, I recently released an album (of actual songs) named Odes to My Triceratops, Vol. 1, based on the nowhere-town adventures of amateur songwriter William Griffin, his blind love interest Claire Javernick, and his best friend the sentient triceratops Lorenzo (no last name), back when they were 12-14 years old. You can download that album here.

I’m slowly “remastering” the songs belonging to the second album in order to release it, but I came up with this new song, titled “Sadtown Train.” An ode to my oldest friend.

Lyrics below:

Sadtown Train’s coming down the track.
(All aboard! All aboard!)

Have you ever ridden the Sadtown Train?
Oh, you haven’t? Lucky bastard!
One day you’ll board that train,
But for now, consider yourself blessed.

The seats are wooden, the windows dirty,
The lamps dim and flickering.
A magic train so wide and so long,
It seems to take up the whole world.

You can hear its massive engine
Growling in the dark and cold,
Pumping all its power to drag along
The endless cargo of souls.

If you want to find me,
I’m on the Sadtown Train,
Just watching the countryside go by,
Not knowing where it ends.