I took the cannon ball down to the ocean across the desert from the sea to shining sea I rode a ladder that climbed across the nation 50 million feet of earth between the buried and me 'How do you do?' She said 'Hey, how do you do?' She buys a ticket cause it's cold were she comes from she climbs aboard because she's scared of getting older in the snow love is a ghost train through the darkness
hold on to me darling I got no place to go 'How do you do?' She said 'Hey, how do you do?' I took the cannonball down to the ocean watch the diesel disappear beneath the tumbling waves love is a ghost train howling on the radio 'Remember everything' She said 'When only memory Remains' 'how do you do?' She said 'Hey, how do you do?'