Last Train Home Lyrics by Nanci Griffith

Last Train Home

By the Time I Get to Phoenix
Was the last song on your mind the day you left
You woke up in Nogales
With Tequila with her name across your chest

Youve stumbled through the morning
In these border tourists dusty avenues
Singing Everydays The Hurting Kind
And everyday you live, youre Born to Lose.

[chorus]
You missed the last train home
The whistle blew and now shes gone
West Texas dust beneath your nails
Youre hammered down the heartbreak trail
And youve missed the last train home
That whistle blewshes solid gone

Now, youre wandering El Paso
Searching for your broken heart and truth
She was all you ever had
And the only thing you ever had to lose

With a juke box playing Charlie Rich
Youre lining up your shots at half past noon
You threw your ring across the bar
And sang along to Good Time Charlies Got the Blues

[chorus]

Now dont go to Tulsa where shes bound
Youll end up six feet underground
Your ex-friend, Charlies there abouts
He never missed the last train out

You missed the last train home
That whistle blewshes solid gone

You missed the last train home
That whistle blewshes solid gone