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    Linda Mckenzie

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    1. Can't Stop a Train

    From the recording Along The Way (an 11 Track Album) . . . Hover Over Any Song Title To Pre-View a Track

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    A “movin’-on-down-the track” train song that boogies to the rhythm of the “steel rails”. Inspired and influenced by an actual train, the “Music City Star”, which is Nashville’s commuter train originating from downtown Nashville and travels east daily. The songwriter, Linda Mckenzie, lives just a house link away from these clickity tracks, where she decided “if you can’t beat em’ … join em’! ” and succumbed to the moving sound of the tracks by writing a song to go along with the daily repeating rhythm of the passing locomotive. It is somewhat ironic that this very same train, formerly named “The Broadway Dinner Train”, is the same place where Mckenzie received her first gig in Nashville performing as a soloist with her guitar in the rear dinner car of the train (for guests & tourists). The song relates a fast moving train to a fast moving relationship, where there is definitely something alluring or soothing about the sound of a distant train approaching, and something very real and present when it arrives, exiting as fast as it approached.. Certainly, you can’t stop a train, nor the whistle noise that happens everyday promptly at 5:30am, 6:30am, and 7:30am, like clockwork. So for this songwriter, the train is a sort of “Love/Hate” relationship and not a “quiet one” for a music maker.

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    Can’t Stop a Train

    THAT LIGHT at the end of the tunnel … that’s a train
    That steel locomotive comin’ at you … that’s a man
    A one way destination and a one track mind
    He’ll meet you at the station leave you cryin’ every time
    Built for speed & motion
    that’s something you won’t change
    Cause You can’t train a man just like you ... Can’t stop a train

    WHEN THOSE STEEL RAILS CALL HIM there won’t nothin’ hold him back
    He’s causin’ a commotion
    When he’s rollin’ down the track
    He’ll engineer his moves just right and calculate his stay
    He’ll love you but he’ll leave you ‘fore you’ll see the light of day
    And If you think you can change him you’re derailed in your brain
    Cause You can’t train a man just like you ... Can’t stop a train

    YOU CAN’T TRAIN A MAN TO LOVE YOU … You can’t Train a man at all
    When you hear his whistle blowin’ that’s a warnin, heed the call
    And they’ll put up a big red flag when he’s passin’ thru your town
    Don’t meet him at the depot
    and mothers lock your daughters down
    If you think you’ll detain him
    You’re derailed in your brain
    Cause You can’t train a man just like you ... Can’t stop a train

    I said you Can’t Train A Man Just like You Can’t Stop A Train

    © Jan. 16, 2013 Linda Mckenzie ~ Addagirl Music (ASCAP)

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