The Extraction Space

Someone once called it
Three chords and the truth
rollin' down the tracks
It was a mighty good line
having a funky good time
But when the station masters
leased the food service to Pepsico
the rhythm of a train
became
the rhythm of a cash register at Wal-mart
that long, lonesome howl
limited, pitch corrected
and double-tracked
until it sounded
like money
It'll be a long, winding road back
If the train keeps rolling.