The Starlings: Music & Lyrics
Empty Boxcar
(The Starlings)
Joy Mills
I went to see him, he was lonely
He’d held on to that fever for awhile
I said baby, be my baby one more time
His response to me was cold as winter
He said my troubled heart does double time
Cuz see when I lost you baby, I lost my mind
And if you hear that north wind blowing
Won’t you drift away from me
Cuz I can hear my own train a comin’
And I’ll hop onto those rails
Yeah that empty little boxcar
Is all the home I really need
And gazing up at the frozen stars
Is where I’ll be
My heart’s an outlaw that beats a narrow beat
A collection of my days that still remain
If my sorrow were a ghost I’d fade away, fade away