Do you hear the clock tick 16:07?
Do you hear the whistle of the new train blowing?
Do you hear the people gathering near?
Do you hear the cheers of a new beginning?
Do you see as all the dissenters board?
They are unwanted in the city to which they belong,
Unwanted by all of their countrymen.
And so they board a train headed to new beginnings,
A train that will leave their woes behind.
Were you on the train when the people boarded
Did you help them load their luggage
Did you give them of your bread to eat?
Did it hurt when eager for new beginnings
They pushed you all away?
Forget about them and watch as newcomers
Gladly choose a car
In which they will sleep each night
As they make this place their home.
The beginning was hard as
Food was scarce
The starving times they were called
Until John Smith boarded the train
And found the kitchen large.
On through time they adjust to their lives
On the train of new beginnings
And after awhile they begin to prosper
On the train of new beginnings.
A new dawn, a new day
Fighting breaks out across the train
New people of other cities from whence they came
Board the train and fight for their claim.
And when the fighting comes to an end,
The time on the clock reads 17:63
Confused they were at the minutes run over
But they continued onward to inhabit cars newly won.
But before they could
The conductor made an announcement
No one must pass cart twenty he proclaimed
And with this being a fifty car train
The people of the train began to rage.
They claimed the land was theirs
They had won the fight
The conductor said it was for those with the red skin
They asked who they were and he said
They helped you once, but now you’ve forgotten
The people of the train did not understand.
The monitors of the train were low on money
The people of the train were there for free
So the monitors thought it reasonable then
To make them pay for the food, and all that they used.
But the people of the train thought it unfair
They refused to pay but continued to take
When the fighting began
The conductor let them take for free again-
But reserved the right to make them pay if he desired.
But not long after
When the clock reached 17:73
They made the people pay
For only just the tea.
The people rioted with violence
They did
When the train was traveling over a river
With a plop they dropped the tea in,
They did.
After this action the conductor
Punished the people
With four acts of which
Follow in order:
They closed outside relations
Stopped inside communications
Employers of the train would rarely be punished
And the people of the train must house the employees.
With anger and contempt
The people of the train passed notes
They loved the train
But they also loved their freedom.
And so with a need for change
They gathered the greatest
And as representatives they decided what to do
Eventually they reached an answer unanimous:
Make one last offer of peace
If rejected to war they would be.
Look at the clock it’s 17:75
The third conductor of the train
George William Frederick
Rejected their offer of peace.
And so with great reluctance
A war then began
See the people of the train fight the conductor, his monitors,
And all their employees.
Did you hear the shot ring out ‘round the train?
Did you hear the shouts demanding freedom?
Did you hear as the train reached the branch line?
And the people of the train forced it the other way?
They rebelled because
What was once a train of new beginnings
Had become a train of abuses and usurpations.
