Slow Train / License to Kill Songtext
von Original Broadway Cast of Girl From the North Country

Sometimes I feel so low-down and disgusted
I can′t help but wonder
What's happening to my companions?
Are they lost? Are they found?
Have they counted the cost it′d take to bring down
All the earthly principles they're gonna have to abandon?
And there's a slow (slow) slow train comin′ (train)
Up ′round the bend (comin')

I had a woman down in Alabama
She was a back-woods girl, but she sure was realistic
She said, "Boy, without a doubt
Have to quit your mess and straighten out
You could die down here
Be just another accident statistic"
′Cause there's a slow (slow)
Slow train comin′ (train)
Up around the bend (comin')
A slow train comin′


When my baby went to Illinois
With some bad-talkin' boy she could destroy
A real suicide case, but there was nothin' I could do to stop it
I don′t care about economy
I don′t care about astronomy
But it sure do bother me to see my loved ones turnin' into puppets (oh)
′Cause there's a slow (slow)
Slow train comin′ (train)
Up around the bend (comin')
A slow train comin′

There's a slow (slow)
Slow train comin' (train)
Up around the bend (comin′)
A slow train comin′

There's a woman (slow)
On my block (train)
She just sit there (slow)
As the light grows dim (train)
She said, "Who′s gonna take away his license to kill?"

Now they take him
And they teach him
And they groom him for life
And they set him on a path
Where he's bound to kill, hey

And they bury him with stars
Sell his body like they do used cars


There′s a woman (slow)
On my block (train)
She just sit there (slow)
Facin' the hill (train)
She said, "Who′s gonna take away his license to kill?"

You may be a noisemaker, spiritmaker, heartbreaker, mapmaker
Leave no stone unturned
May be an actor in a plot
That might be all that you got
Till you're whatever you clearly learned

There's a slow (slow)
Slow train comin′ (train)
Up around the bend (comin′)
Slow train comin'
There′s a slow (slow)
Slow train comin' (train)
Up around the bend (comin′)
Slow train comin'

There′s a slow, there's a slow (slow)
There's a slow, there′s a slow train comin′
Slow train comin'
There′s a slow (slow)
Slow train comin' (train)
Up around the bend (comin′)
A slow train comin'