The way a little baby wraps the hand around your finger
Sunshine on your face, in the first dawn light
Way she waits to let the moment linger
Way the future's always bring surprise
It ain't cocaine running through your veins
Beluga caviar on the gravy train
It ain't cocaine as you sip champagne
As you toast high times on your Gravy Train
So many vampires in the night
All of the riches in this time, I know you're mine
Waiting for the lightning so exciting after the thunder
Twinkle in your eyes, the starlight shines
The diamond in your mind is cut from wonder
I know how your feeling and you're feeling fine
It ain't cocaine running through your veins
Beluga caviar on the gravy train
It ain't cocaine as you sip champagne
As you toast high times on your Gravy Train
So many vampires in the night
All of the riches in this time, I know you're mine
I know you're mine
And we got all the time in the world
Yeah we got all the time in the world
Lyrics by:
Brown / McCracken / Bierton / Hatwell
Available on:
Music Of The Spheres (4.23)
Details:
The Gravy Train is critical of those that exist solely for the pleasures of the high life - Beluga caviar (a favourite of Pablo Picasso, an artist influential on Squire - see Guernica), champagne, cocaine.
On his Music Of The Spheres tour, Ian would break into a rendition of Dillinger's 'Cocaine In My Brain' at the end of The Gravy Train, citing the influence of this song.
The line "Waiting for the lightning so exciting after the thunder" is either a blatant disregard of the laws of physics or an error. Lightning comes before thunder as light travels faster than the speed of sound. Trademark Ian eh ? Not one to let the laws of physics stand in the way of a good lyric...
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