Story Behind The Song

This song was the first of what is now several from the songwriting partnership I have with lyricist & fellow International Songwriting Association member Paul Thomas.

Lyrics

I was born in another place Way down the line
How long has it been?
I've lost all time
Where the fog always fell and the rain drops chimed
So soft on my window pane.

Now the tangled tracks of what has been
Left me with a map, and a half recalled dream
Now I try to see the light of what it means
Down memory's dark lanes

Chorus
Down the track lines, way down the track lines
Down the track lines to where it all began
Down the track lines to where it all began.

I was so shy, found it hard to cope
I thought many times I'd lost all hope
I saw me hanging on to a tangled old rope
In my unprotected mind.

Friends I had just came and went
My self-belief had all been spent
I had no money for food or to pay the rent
As my memory's clock rewinds.

Chorus
Down the track lines, way down the track lines
Down the track lines to where it all began
Down the track lines to where it all began.


Hero's, were few and were far between
I found mine on the silver screen
It was my destiny to get out of my teens
With scars hidden deep down inside.

As I get further up the tracks to here
I can't say to you now, that I resent them years
To make it to the light, you must have travelled through the mirror
To make it to the other side

Chorus
Down the track lines, way down the track lines
Down the track lines to where it all began
Down the track lines to where it all began.

Paul Thomas