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 age 18. 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.
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
from No Apologies,
track released September 4, 2020
Writer/composer: Sandy Powlik
Producer/mixer: Jeff Dawson
Vocals, piano, guitar: Sandy Powlik
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