Lyrics

Choice City

The news has whispered throughout the wheat
That small time farmers can’t compete
Anymore, we gotta go

Back when tickets got punched on time
The pristine promise of wealth to find
On down the line, and in them mines
There is wealth to find,.... on down the line

This old engine of steam and dreams
From worn out porters to men of means,
they’re all the same

Fat cats with their silver spoons,
Those rowdy rounders in saloons
There is money to spare
Dirty money everywhere

Hold your head up ten feet high
Before it hits the ground
Slowly churnin’ I’m on my own
But I’m Choice City Bound
The Choice City Queen’s been a chuggin’
Long before you were around

Head full of steam
Careening down it seems

The engine will pull as the car still follows
If you ride fast enough you’ll escape tomorrow
Whistle don’t blow while carrying the cargo
The only thing left is time to borrow
There’ll be no stopping me

And the whistle goes…

From a boomin city to a one horse town
That grew up too quick to stick around
I lived it all
Worn tracks of steel, worn tracks are straight
This passenger don’t have to wait, too long
The promise of Choice City
It can be found

Hold your head up ten feet high
Before it hits the ground
Slowly churnin’ I’m on my own
But I’m Choice City Bound
The Choice City Queen’s been a chuggin’
Long before you were around