On a train ride from some place bad
to some place a little better.
In
between my youth and manhood
was a place I met her.
She was just a skinny brown eyed girl
with a hunger for tomorrow.
I was then obese
by pain.
I had all that I could swallow.
Oh fair
traveling girl,
keep on traveling on.
Oh fair traveling girl, it's just the sea
that you have is wrong.
Her eyes were packing past regrets.
In her lips there was redemption.
And she mistook my cold for love
as she wore it for affection.
As she took a seat beside me,
I inhaled all of her laughter.
And she forgot there
is a past
while I forgot there is an after.
Oh fair
traveling girl,
keep on traveling on.
Oh fair
traveling girl,
it's just the sea
that you have is wrong.
On a train ride from some place gone
to some place
almost certain.
In between my flesh
and bone
was a place I met her.
And wrapped up in my coat of shame,
she laid there sleeping
tightly.
And as a train pulled to another stop,
well I knew she'd go on without me.
Oh
fair traveling girl, keep on traveling on.
Oh fair traveling girl, it's just the sea that
you
have is wrong.
It's just the sea that you have is wrong.