Ken Ficara - Time Machine With a Broken Heart

I'm traveling through the wrong side of towns Seeing what they used to be When you could cut hair down by the train station Make enough to raise a family But now the barber pole don't spin anymore And the stripes are faded away The only guy who makes a living down here Gives loans before payday

And the train don't stop no more They closed all the stores Nobody lives down here It's been that way for years And an old man shades his eyes Waves at the train Watches it go by And knows it won't ever stop there again

I wonder who Jack was He used to make good burgers But now the building's falling down And the sign has lost its letters Jack had his name on a building Everyone knew him in town But they got old, the kids moved away And everything ran down

This downtown once was full of dreams They had it made or so it seemed They worked so hard to build this place Then watched it all just go to waste And the train rolls by Like a time machine with a broken heart The past makes you want to cry And the future just looks way too hard

And the train don't stop no more They closed all the stores Nobody lives down here It's been that way for years And the old man wipes his eyes The whistle blows and the train is gone The crossing gates rise And he walks down the street alone