Southbound Train – Jon Foreman
Nov.25, 2009 in
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And I’m drifting off to sleep With my face pressed up against the pane With the rhythm of my heart And the ringing in my ears It’s the rhythm of the Southbound Train Oh, when the wind starts to look like her hair The clouds in her bright blue eyes As the sea and the shore fall and rise Like her breast as she breathes by my side And the moon is her lips as the sun Is headed on down to the sea Like her head as she lays down on me Until we reach Oceanside Over and over I hear the same refrain …
September 27th, 2008 at 10:06 am
You’re certainly welcome!
November 11th, 2008 at 6:08 am
sweet mother of god. this has to be the best song ever written. bless u for posting. do u know where i can buy this ep?
November 11th, 2008 at 7:19 am
Angus: You can get this song off of iTunes. Try listening to all 6 songs in Fall – you just might end up loving the whole EP!
There are also 3 other fantastic EPs from Foreman you can get your hands on.
December 4th, 2008 at 2:17 pm
I love this song. I heard it for the first time before the EP came out at an acoustic concert for Habitat for Humanity–I loved then and I love it now. Thanks for posting this.
December 5th, 2008 at 12:33 pm
Welcome. I saw that there were only live versions of the song on YouTube, so I thought, I can post this track…
December 22nd, 2008 at 3:39 am
this song is so moving.
its almot orgasmic…haha. i love it and i love the person who got me hooked on john foreman.
January 16th, 2009 at 10:50 pm
ahh, beautiful video! i love this song. it’s so pure and honest and touching.
February 26th, 2009 at 3:39 pm
BEAUTIFUL, Jon. Thank you. Thank you.
March 17th, 2009 at 4:06 am
such a wonderful song i love it
May 12th, 2009 at 9:52 am
I love Jon’s works, such a great composer.
as far as I’m concerned, he is up there with beethoven and mozart.
I love his eps, and this song really captures the spirit of fall.
May 12th, 2009 at 10:00 am
a real re-accuring theme with Jon (that never really gets old either) is songs about home… and that our home is not on this earth.
May 12th, 2009 at 10:00 am
this song:
“I’m headed home
Yeah, but I’m not so sure
That home is a place
You can still get to by train”
The setting sun:
“My hope runs underneath it all, the day that I’ll be home
It won’t be long, I belong
somewhere past the setting sun
finally free, finally strong,
somewhere back where I belong.”
May 12th, 2009 at 10:50 am
But anyway, this song reminds my of my old house in northern VA (like 3 miles from the border north) I miss all the nature there, and my friends, and the mountains, the streams, everything, all the good times.
I live in a city now, and I feel the deep longing for home mentioned in this song.
May 13th, 2009 at 4:08 pm
I freaking love this song. I love singing it and playing it. Makes me feel like I’m somewhere else. Not around people. Just me. Breathing in the air with no worries, no sorrows, nothing. I never want to leave that feeling.
May 16th, 2009 at 8:58 am
home like heaven?
that’s what i think he’s talking about.
i mean “somewhere past the setting sun.”
May 17th, 2009 at 12:25 am
Hmmm…
Interesting point. Never thought about it that way before…
May 21st, 2009 at 6:10 pm
i haven’t even listened to the song yet but lookin at all these comments i tink that Jon shud be proud of himself….i tink he’s doin a great job for the man up there…he always says that he wnts to try to write songs that do more than just entertain n he ’s done that extremely well lookin at all these comments ….Jon Foreman and Switchfoot ROCK!!!!!
June 4th, 2009 at 3:52 pm
I could listen to this song every day for the rest of my life/ until I get home lol … and not even begin to tire of it
June 6th, 2009 at 6:24 am
I love this song,its sooo,I don’t know…kinda…making me happy and sad at the same time,amazing : )
June 11th, 2009 at 5:41 pm
i dont know why but somehow i think that the line ”With my face pressed up against the pane” has a lot of meaning
pane also got me thinking of pain
im sure that its not intentionally that way but… u know the line gets me thinking
great vid for a great song
loved it
July 8th, 2009 at 8:05 am
oh. my. gosh.
this is my story. like, word for word (except in this case the girl’s the one on the train), everything is just how it hapened to me- even the fact that it happened in Oceanside.
this song is perfect.
July 8th, 2009 at 8:07 am
no, i think the ‘pane’ pun was intentional.. very interesting, i’m glad you said that
November 15th, 2009 at 1:41 am
I think that Every Switchfoot Jon foreman fam, and anyone who knows Jon is proud of him. I know i sure am
it’d be a great bonus if he were also proud of himself, but also what he has done for so many ppl without the prospect of gaining much himself. and when u say SWITCHFOOT AND JON FOREMAN ROCK u couldnt be mmore correct my freind 
Agreed Major.
November 20th, 2009 at 3:04 am
I could listen to this song all day, but my officemate would be unhappy…
November 22nd, 2009 at 1:17 pm
Jon Foreman has a gift for making one cry over simple songs…..