Lyrics

Hands Up
Drew James © 2007

All night train
I’ll see it in the morning light
All night train
I’ll see it in the morning light

Hiding high above the blind
In a Smith & Wesson dream
When the whistle blows and the engine slows
I’ll jump through a cloud of steam
It ain’t far from car to car
I can make it in one leap
Crawling ‘round without a sound
To where the rich men sleep

Hands up
Hands down
Hand it over
Arms bound

(Repeat chorus)

I hear the wheels and smell the steel
Rise through the crack of dawn
Wait and wait till I hear the brake
Then through the air I come
At 5 o’clock I pick the lock
Into first class I creep
But the plot’s undone when I see a gun
Pointing back at me

(Repeat refrain)

Out of luck like a sitting duck
Cause in the train car that I chose
Were cops escorting wards of the court
In their orange prison clothes
They chained me up with two handcuffs
And now I’m doing my time
The bars of a cell sound like railroad bells
When you bang your head and cry

(Repeat chorus)
(Repeat refrain) (X2)