Story Behind The Song

.....the music came first, 1998 or 1999 or so. some months after September 11, I went back to the music to this song, and the image I kept getting in my mind was of people in darkness with deteriorating surroundings.......forgotten people left behind.

Song Description

wrote the music first and allowed it to imply the emotional content and storyline of the lyric.

Lyrics

....out on the edge of town
there is a train station
crumbling bricks and broken windows
no one comes or goes
no whistle blows
hollow lanterns gaze in darkness

They don't see anymore
they been left behind
all the lights burned out long ago
and it leaves them stranded
like a blind man waiting
all alone...
By the Side of the Road