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Freight Train

by Lola Parks

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about

Speaks to reconciliation and forgiveness, applicable both to an intimate relationship and in a wider, sociopolitical (TRC) and human rights sense.

How it came about: Was teaching piano a couple of years ago and haven’t had my own piano since I left home (for university) at 18, used to go up to the university and play in the music school at night, then got a crappy keyboard to practice for jazz gigs, fronted a 17-piece all-male Big Band. It felt like “coming home,” playing a real piano, I’d go early and stay late playing around after lessons, growing up I’d play 30min improv, instrumental, just playing around… I literally wrote the bones of Freight Train after teaching 4-7-year-olds piano lessons.

lyrics

Your love is like a freight train
Your love is like a freight train
You come in hot and you come in fast
Then I hear your brakes screechin’ on the tracks
Your love is like a freight train

Your love is like a campfire
Your love is like a campfire
Keep me warm through the night
Then you left and took the light
Your love is like a campfire

[Chorus:]
Is it too late for a conversation?
Is it too late to make amends?
Is it too late to forgive and forget?
Is it too late, is it too late?

Your love is like a landmine
Your love is like a landmine
Laying low, lay in wait
Constant threat to detonate
Your love is like a landmine

[Chorus:]

[Bridge:] Loving yourself helps, you said
As if I’s the only self-hating one
I said I didn’t need marriage, I wanted a lover and a friend
You said you weren’t lookin’ for love and on that you wouldn’t bend
If I show you how to love again…

Your love is like a shotgun
Your love is like a shotgun
Shoot from the hip, straight to the heart
Forever blown apart
Your love is like a shotgun

[Double Chorus/Outro:]
Is it too late…
Unless our love is like a phoenix
And we rise above the ash
And we show ‘em a love that lasts
Is it too late, is it too late, is it too late?

credits

released September 4, 2020
Album: No Apologies
Writer/composer: Sandy Powlik
Producer: Jeff Dawson
Genre: Blues-Folk blues; Rock-Americana, Folk-singer-songwriter
Subgenres: Roots, Singer-songwriter, Americana, Hymnal
BPM: 93
Key: G
Length: 3:28
ISRC: CA5TW2000006
UPC: 709388026618
Tempo: down-tempo
Mood: hymn-like, emotional-sad, resigned, melancholy, intimate, earnest, slow-pulsing, wistful, lonely
Tags: female vocal, piano, Americana, Roots, blues, folk
Feat. Instruments: female vocal, piano, harmonium, acoustic guitar, upright bass
Lyric Keywords: love, too late, freight train, landmine, shotgun, conversation, phoenix, rise from the ash, amends

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Lola Parks Vancouver, British Columbia

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