The Daylight Express

from The Daylight Express by tobias hengeveld

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the Daylight Express going interstate
it rattles past our back gate
when the driver blows the whistle and the fireman waves
then so do all the passengers heading far from here

no sign of light, jubilation
from the Club Car, all the people ‘going places’
in my line of sight they can’t have gone a hundred paces
before they’re not a tiny spot vanished from the world
a rumbling rail still hot to touch
a tale about a girl

Our Katherine owned a temper like her name-sake
The firecracker always spinning off its nail
She grew bigger until no-one could extinguish her
She tore through town like wildfire for all the world to see
I walked her to the platform, she wouldn’t look at me
But I sure had to look when the Daylight came
And took her
It took her
away

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from The Daylight Express, released July 1, 2014

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tobias hengeveld Melbourne, Australia

Tobias Hengeveld writes melodically vivid songs, riddled with unexpected angular pop-hooks. His distinctively sylvan voice tells personal experiences with wry lyrical candor.

The Daylight Express was nominated for an Age Music Victoria Award in 2014.

Due in April 2019, NAUGHTS & ONES is a triumphant mirror-maze of jubilant pop tunes set in a hinterland of darker rock ballads. ... more

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