Carl Rachel - Long Abandoned Tracks lyrics

What you're working for's working against you if what you give you're not getting back though you follow their dream with a full head of steam you're still not in the black there's a junkyard full of rusted machines that once were Cadillacs driven by the lost and lonely down some long-abandoned tracks. He wanted to be a rock star so much he acted like one call it a shame when the top of your game comes too early and you're too young there's a record store dollar-bargain bin of would-be stars and no-name acts whose unplayed songs of silence lie on some long-abandoned tracks. She wanted to be a mother but a scientist in her dreams it comes with a price, every sacrifice to be paid in full it seems a family grows, goes their separate ways all with clean clothes on their backs a labcoat hangs for mother down some long-abandoned tracks. He's building a castle at low tide well aware of the waves washing in they're moving in a line, in a race against time he wonders, too late to begin? can't right recall how he got way out here but this is no time to relax ankle-deep he's staring now down some long-abandoned tracks. She's counting the days in years now and wonders where the time has gone it's a vanishing scene but long live the queen for the noble job she's done if fairytales end when the books are closed and gently slipped back on the racks tell it to the characters dancing down some long-abandoned tracks. There's a story that says they get there staying true to the path they choose with the courage to say they're not going to pay for an offer they can't refuse if somebody asks what e'er became of them just say they lived it to the max you'll find them quiet and peaceful down some long-abandoned tracks. everybody gets one free pa** down their long-abandoned tracks.