Thomas Cassell - "Wish I Was a Railroad Train" (Official Video)

"Wish I Was a Railroad Train," by Thomas Cassell
© 2024 Mountain Fever Records

Video by Jeff Adamczyk

Producers: Casey Campbell & Thomas Cassell
Recorded by Ben Surratt at the Rec Room, Nashville, TN
Additional recording by Thomas Cassell, Wyatt Rice, and Amanda Fields
Mixed and mastered by Aaron Ramsey

Thomas Cassell - lead vocal, mandolin, primary artist
Ashby Frank - harmony vocal
Amanda Fields - harmony vocal
Wyatt Rice - guitar
Tim Stafford - guitar
Bronwyn Keith-Hynes - fiddle
Max Etling - upright bass
Rob Ickes - resophonic guitar

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Lyrics & music by Thomas Cassell (Chief Benge's Music, ASCAP)

I wish I was a railroad train
Far out on the western plain
My whiste'd blow all through the night
Freedom with no end in sight

If I could be the oceans wide
I'd let the storm clouds be my guide
The wind would be my one true friend
And take me far away from where I've been

Somewhere between who I was meant to be and who I am
Remains not a single rock unturned
Surely there will come a time when I can understand
Surely there will come a time I learn

If I could be a mountain tall
I'd look out and see it all
The fields below me white with snow
And the little rocks from which I'd grown

If I were a single leaf
In a forest of a million trees
No one would see me wave along
But I'd be right where I belonged

Somewhere between who I was meant to be and who I am
Remains not a single rock unturned
Surely there will come a time when I can understand
Surely there will come a time I learn