The Train Bomber - Lyrics - Ike Reilly

Ike Reilly is an American singer-songwriter, musician, and writer as well as frontman and founder of the indie-rock band the Ike Reilly Assassination. Reilly was born in the United States Naval Hospital, Great Lakes, Illinois and raised in nearby Libertyville, Illinois where he spent his childhood. Reilly graduated from Libertyville High School where he excelled in cross country. Reilly graduated from Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin where he majored in Theology. His first creative writing and musical expressions began in middle school when he started writing songs and became adept at playing the harmonica. He began playing the guitar in his teens and formed his first band, "Captain Budget and the Loan Sharks," while a student at Marquette University. Following college, he trekked around Chicago and Milwaukee fronting the band, The Eisenhowers. Reilly formed the band, the Ike Reilly Assassination in 2000 and has been a regular on the alternative rock scene throughout the United States ever since. Reilly was signed to a recording contract with Universal Republic Records now known as Universal Music Group in 2000 where he released the critically acclaimed CD Salesmen and Racists. Reilly left Universal in 2003 and since then has been releasing music on the Rock Ridge Music distributed through Warner Bros. Records. Since 2001, Reilly has released six CDs and is in the midst of completing a seventh with a target release date of Fall 2013.

Do you remember when they said they'd blow our whole world into oblivion? And that the war was a long way away and anyway who gives a *** for your opinion! I'm coming clean, I swear my dear, I would be lost without it now. and when my coat was stinking that evil smoke, You thought my train got lost. Hey! Somebody bombed the train! They blew it right off of the rails, So I can't see you today... And the sailors, they all got out OK. And made it back to Great Lakes Sneaking whiskey back onto the base Hey!, has anybody heard from Shane I haven't seen him in days.. I hope he's not found near the rails! And Julie, she loved to look at the trains, And round out painting her nails; in her cut-offs next to the rails And the switch-men, they all knew her by name They waited for her on their breaks, To check out her legs and her nails In Waukeegan, there lies the county jail, But I don't have the bail! Has anybody here seen Shane? Hey! Somebody bombed the train... They blew it right off of the rails! So I can't see you today... Hey! Somebody blew up the train! They knocked it right off of the tracks, Has anybody here seen Shane? Somebody's gotta pay... Somebody's gotta pay... Somebody's gotta pay... Somebody's gotta pay... Somebody's gotta pay... Somebody's gotta pay... Somebody's gotta pay!