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7 Train In Vein

from Watch The Gap by Christopher John Campion

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An ode to the 7 train where I spend many an exhausted night coming home from gigs, witnessing the cosmic interplay of the late night riders of the rail and letting my mind meander.......

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The 7 Train is in my veins and carries me home through my pain...
and is the place where my thoughts graze....

Cuz these days I'm a monkey in the middle
With a heartache from an ancient Irish fiddle
Feeling hum-drum like that bum out on the sidewalk where he sits, taking big sips, and thumbing his nose at the apocalypse

I am hurting and sometimes flirting with the idea of deserting
Don't fret, I ain't done it yet
Not really the type who takes the gaspipe

Well, perhaps, it's all attached to my money woes, so the feelin' goes, sets my ego en fuego, and away we go...
Follow me I'm the Pied Pauper...we can live like Cyndi Lauper and just have fun

Money, money, money, money, money, money...can't make it, can't keep it, in my pocket i must free it...yeah, yeah
Supposed to go to a place called "Chase"...they rarely see my face

Cuz these days I'm a monkey in the middle
With a heartache from an ancient Irish fiddle
Feelin' hum-drum like that bum out on the sidewalk where he sits, taking big sips, and thumbing his nose at the apocalypse

The 7 Train is in my veins and carries me out to my Mets games...and is the place where my thoughts graze and blaze

On the 7 Train the other day to his friend I heard a young man say, "where did that plane go, bro?" Friend said, "I dunno."
He said, "You know what I think?" Friend said, "No...go."
"I think they on an island somehwere startin' they own shit up." Friend said, "whoa...that's a beautiful thought, yo."
As the train lurched ever slow, though the snow, in the great borough of Queens....

Cuz these days I'm a monkey in the middle
These days I'm a monkey in the middle
These days I'm a monkey in the middle
Feelin' hum-drum like that bum, out on the sidewalk where he sits, takin' big fuck you sips, and thumbing his nose at the apocalypse

The 7 Train is in my veins......

-CJC

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from Watch The Gap, released June 4, 2015
Written by Christopher john Campion
Vocals, Casio-Christopher John Campion
Guitars, Animoog, and Ableton orchestration-Jonny "Dex" Taylor
Produced by Jonny "Dex" Taylor

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Christopher John Campion New York, New York

Christopher John Campion is a singer-songwriter/author known for his rollicking off-Broadway music-monologue-piece, Escape From Bellevue and the acclaimed memoir that followed on Penguin Books. In recent years he has toured and opened shows for M.Ward, Rhett Miller, and Violent Femmes and his songs have been featured in movies and on the CBS shows Instinct and NCIS:Los Angeles. ... more

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