From the Album "Arc of a Diver", released 1981 on Island Records.
Words and Music by Steve Winwood and Will Jennings.
Key of D-minor. Time signature 4/4.
Dm C/D G Dm C/D G
Out of the night burning with light
Dm C/D G
Train shining black, I won't look back, life is running
Dm C/D G Dm
Hoping some day someone will say I got it made
C/D G
Pull up the shade, let the sun in
A Fmaj7 G A Fmaj7
Refrain - Down on the night train, I feel the starlight steal away
G A Fmaj7 G A
Use up a lifetime looking for the break of day
Border patrol looking through me
Towns without names all look the same, I hear crying
Paris to Spain, countries in pain
Caught up in flight, feeling the sight, Europe dying
(refrain)
Cm Bb/C Cm
Rolling on, hear the wheels singing,
(no chord) Cm Bb/C Asus2 A Asus4
Fever keep coming on so strong
My ticket paid, trying to fade
I hope I get there not just somewhere I was leaving
Out in the dark all the wolves bark
I fold my arms try to keep warm by believing
(refrain)
Dm C/D G
Hard rain following on, cold wheels moving on
Dm C/D G
Everybody they're so alone down on the night train