<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=392397" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Steel Rails Hum (song for a singer)</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">If it should happen like this: <br>That one day you are gone<br>And I myself still hanging on, <br>I will break down in tears<br>When I hear the news<br>I will be listening one more time<br>To your ragged song.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I will sing lightly, gliding on<br>The quiet thunder of your voice<br>Not diluting your expression<br>Nor can I forget a word.<br>Melodic phrases mount and ride <br>Valley descants, rising hills<br>As steel rails hum, we sing along <br>To hard time working blues.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Soul companion for so long<br>But I will never come to know <br>The weights and daily burdens that you raise.<br>And if one day you will be gone<br>And I'm still standing in the rain<br>I will not claim to know you, nor say to anyone<br>That I caught you in the distance<br>Reaching out to recreate<br>The delicacy of your song on stage.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But for myself I take the stand<br>And trust in all its certainty<br>To recognize the hum of rails<br>Vibrations of approaching trains, <br>The metal wheels that churn your mind<br>Intoning their redemption, sighs of pain.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And I will harmonize with them<br>While I remember, just as long<br>As I am standing by your tracks -<br>If ever you are gone.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Frank+Bana">Frank Bana</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=392397" data-title="Steel Rails Hum (song for a singer) de Frank Bana" data-description="If it should happen like this: That one day you are gone And I myself still hanging on, I will break down in tears When I hear the news I will be listening one more time To your ragged song. I will sing lightly, gliding on The quiet thunder of ..."></div> </div> </div>

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