Trains - Porcupine Tree

This is the second song from the album In Absentia
Composer: Steven Wilson.
All credits go to Porcupine Tree.
Lyrics:
Train set and match spied under the blind
Shiny and contoured the railway winds
And I've heard the sound from my cousin's bed
The hiss of the train at the railway head
Always the summers are slipping away
A 60 ton angel falls to the earth
A pile of old metal, a radiant blur
Scars in the country, the summer and her
Always the summers are slipping away
Find me a way for making it stay
When I hear the engine pass
I'm kissing you wide
The hissing subsides
I'm in luck
When the evening reaches here
You're tying me up
I'm dying of love
It's OK

[@MusicNMovieAddict]

I'd give anything to hear this song for the first time again.

[@anupatre7859]

+Lbmusicforlife Something about this song right? Feels different and better everytime. But you want feel it again for the first time. Mind blowing. Truly.

[@leverposteien]

+Lbmusicforlife Good news: You can! :-D Just listen! Now! Right now! Listen to the sounds! All the sounds! Like you never heard it before!

[@jijst5]

+Lbmusicforlife So true!! My first listen was undescribable...

[@MusicNMovieAddict]

+Anup Atre Exactly! It's just the best feeling; listening to an incredible song for the first time, and somehow already know that you'll never get tired of it. :)

[@SAHogan-bw4wg]

+Lbmusicforlife The dev sez: "O.K., missy, but it'll cost you your SOUL. Are you sure you meant ANYTHING? Sporting sort of guy that I am I'll give you a moment to think it over."

[@MysteryHardRocker]

A long time ago I met a girl in my hometown and started to like her, but I figured she didn't like me so I just let it go. Years later we moved to different cities in opposite directions and I started to talk to her again and discovered she's such a wonderful person; that gave me even more reasons to like her and I fell in love, so I stood up and told her. Turns out she liked me too from the beginning, and now it just so happens that we're coming back to our hometown in a holiday, so we arranged for me to pick her up at the train station. I can't wait to hear the engine pass and kiss her wide! This song makes me feel so light and secure about it. Thank you Porcupine Tree for this masterpiece, and thank you Luiza for being such an awesome girl.

[@omeshsingh7072]

MysteryHardRocker keep us posted mate.. 😁

[@aidancarpio5151]

congrats dude!

[@richardcampbell4199]

Awesome story....best of luck in your LOVE!

[@justinjohnson1766]

@@eridinthevirgin4191 Bro... Hahahaha XD

[@fernandosilva6295]

So... What happened?

[@aindrilapal4138]

It's May 2020. Kolkata is unbearably hot, humid and caught in the middle of a country-wide lockdown thanks to COVID-19. There's also the immense damage caused by the cyclone and its ferocious winds. I'm alone, at home, with no one to talk to. As I sit and contemplate, I look back at my life and this song plays in the background. The skies start to darken, in a while the streets outside are deluged by the heavy rains. It couldn't get gloomier. This song is an antidote to everything I'm feeling. For a moment, just for a moment, life feels alright.

[@jojogpt]

You can listen to this song when you are sad, you can listen to it when you are happy, at the start of your day or end your day with it. This song is meant to stay with you and give you the opportunity to forget all and just let this flow through you. PT will always be at the top of my list.

[@aindrilapal4138]

@@alonespirit_1Q84 I returned to Bengal after a decade. The rains feel so welcome. Ten years of staying in dry and arid Delhi has made sure,that I value every day it rains here,in Kolkata.

[@EsotericHighway]

Much Love to you from the States. PS: covid is a psychological 0peration to bring in the New W0rld 0rder. May the people of this planet awaken and rise..

[@johnsound6107]

Your a great writer keep writing

[@thedumbestmedicoever4141]

A Bengali here. You referred amphan I know, really it's hard to find any Bengali to hear Porcupine Tree or Pinkzebra songs.

[@omairsheikh3982]

The entire song is perfection, but my God that transition to the acoustic solo is other worldly. Been listening for over 15 years and still never get tired of this song

[@divinehotelssupply4889]

true story :)

[@AyurmirK.]

Спасибо. - художник, поэт JoysticK . 2023

[@rh6343]

This song makes me nostalgic for something I'm not sure I ever got to experience.

[@85UKDan]

you should check out kzbin.info/www/bejne/qaGugJyYlKloj7s summarizes that feeling perfectly

[@thismagickalheart]

Yes!

[@chakibfcb4628]

same here

[@Zeroakoa]

Don't quite remember, but there is a word for exactly that. I experience it a lot too

[@agemoth]

@@Zeroakoa deja vu? (2 words!)

[@joaquinlanderretche]

It was a friend who showed me Porcupine Tree. I owe him a part of my life since then.

[@designerhell]

sounds more like a liability (jk)

[@thomas-zs2jm]

@@designerhell agree

[@fdveffjknv3451]

Good anecdote: The teacher asked once what did we talk about when we talked about happiness. And then one student said that happiness is what happens when you go to bed on the hottest night of the summer, a night so hot you can’t even wear a tee-shirt and you sleep on top of the sheets instead of under them, although try to sleep is probably the most accurate. And then at some point late, late, late at night, say just a bit before dawn, the heat finally breaks and the night turns cool and when you briefly wake up, you notice that you’re almost chilly, and in your groggy, half-consciousness, you reach over and pull the sheet around you and just that flimsy sheet makes it warm enough and you drift back off into a deep sleep. And it’s that reaching, that gesture, that reflex we have to pull what’s warm- whether it’s something or someone- towards us, that feeling we get when we do that, that feeling of being safe in the world and ready for sleep, that’s happiness. Well to me, this is my metaphorical sheet.

[@tomasalvarado8205]

I'd like to frame this one.

[@Laura-hr7ze]

heyy! this isnt the first time i see this... I was actually browsing videos today of other cool songs and i saw this joke earlier! :P

[@Chris-wi3vu]

fdvef fjknv3 awesome way to put it

[@jamiebirkett4706]

fdvef fjknv3 that's fucking awesome

[@josephbennett4236]

fdev fjknv3 You know plagiarism is against the law. And morally dubious, too.

[@beepst]

This song gives me such a nostalgic feel is almost painful. It just feels like walking aimlessly and getting lost with your loved one, not caring about anything other than enjoying each other's company. It literally feels like a journey through some rural/industrial place with abandoned factories near the railways.

[@folkchild7595]

thanks for putting my thoughts into words lol i relate to this so much. well said

[@alanamason2184]

Hiaerath

[@alanamason2184]

Liminal spaces in between places

[@alanamason2184]

Loss minors chords deep drops irreverent summer but so sad

[@Anaximander29A]

I like trains.

[@TheElevatr]

How do you feel about turtles?

[@mikegLXIVMM]

Good in soup.

[@lokevoice]

+Mikeg1 .1 I agree, though the wheels usually get stuck in my teeth

[@TheElevatr]

Dem turtle wheels be all up in ur grill.

[@lokevoice]

+TheElevatr Well I was meaning train soup but turtle wheels also annoy me quite a bit. I have no idea what the fuck I'm even talking about at this point.

[@angiemontano27]

My now husband and I discovered this song on our first date. We played it during our wedding and love this band almost as much as each other! Porcupine tree is on constant play on our TV. The live performances! (Thank you, Tilberg!!)

[@nickmelucci]

Hearing Porcupine Tree for the first time is like having a fantastic, new chapter open in your life's story.

[@kravatapraimuu]

I guess you could say it is The Start of Something Beautiful

[@neerajarora2513]

Sheldon Cooper's favorite song 🎵 😁

[@muntahasubah8796]

Been listening to this song for more than one year and always wondered why no one is talking about sheldon here xD

[@maskof]

There's no such thing as a bad Porcupine Tree song. They just vary in differing degrees of excellence.

[@maskof]

***** It's amazing! As are all their songs.

[@michaelkraemerman2009]

Four chords that make a million is the only one i think is bad.

[@waveoflight]

***** i would say he considers it to have some degree of excellence.

[@michaelkraemerman2009]

lalalalalalala

[@father042]

Except Linton Samuel Dawson

[@zagliolo96]

Holy shit, I just discovered them. I'm fucking crying :'D

[@Captain__UwU]

+Andrea Zagli Welcome to PT, I haven't listened to music the same since I discovered them last summer.

[@Derwichmusique]

+Andrea Zagli try every projects Steven Wilson have done !! One of the best carreers ever !! :D Storm Corrosion, Blackfield, Bass Communion, IEM, No Man.... This guy is a genius !

[@benedictdonald4338]

+Andrea Zagli if you like this, try British band Anathema. Wilson actually produced an album of theirs, called "We're here Because We're Here". try their songs "Everything", "Dreaming Light", and "Untouchable, part I". they've project the same 'vibe' as Wilson does.....just pure emotion.

[@arwiviv]

+Anthony .Derwich Known about Steve since the late 90's. You forgot to mention what he did with Opeth.

[@mazrio128]

"The hiss of the train at the railway head...."

[@nathaliewagner5773]

in my life I had many songs that I called "my new favourite song" but eventually I stopped listening to them and didnt consider them my favourite song anymore. With Trains, it's different. I didn't consider it my favourite song, yet I always found myself coming back for it, no matter if i was feeling happy or sad, I always love listening to it and never grew sick of it. That's how I knew that Trains actually IS my favourite song. Thank you Porcupine Tree for offering me a place I can always return back to.

[@mansurarbab1953]

I totally get what you're saying. It's still not my most favourite song. But then again, I have no most favourite song. I just come back to this song time and time again

[@wellingtonmaya5557]

This makes me nostalgic about a girlfriend I never had as a teenager.

[@gabikogan7473]

Truer words have never been spoken

[@jobelthirty1294]

I had a girlfriend as a teenager and I can confirm that I think of the comforting relationship we had whenever I listen to this song

[@cubicbanban]

… this is exactly the same for me

[@bascxx2]

Same here. single all my life. smh @ 34

[@gaetanoloprestigiunta4387]

This makes me nostalgic about a girlfriend I never had...

[@manifestgtr]

"60 ton angel falls to the earth" is one of my favorite lyrics of all time...it's such a powerful, spiritually destructive bit of imagery

[@kramsniggah4333]

manifestgtr Me too!! Every time I hear that line I imagine a jet liner crashing into the planet. "60 ton angel falls to the Eatrh, pile of old metal radium birth." I love Porcupine Tree and every Steven Wilson side project.

[@davenight]

+manifestgtr The 60 ton angel is indeed a steam train.

[@tomesilva36]

+manifestgtr It´s dedicated to your mom... just kidding xD

[@halcyon289]

+dave nightingale I thought it was a plane :)

[@davenight]

+halcyon289 Steven grew up next to train station in Hemel Hempstead this is about his nostalgic childhood.

[@pushkarkukde7805]

Step:1 Plug in your headphones Step:2 Put all Porcupine tree tracks.....on loop :) Step:3 Let yourself fall into the aesthetic abyss of utter euphoria.

[@gowriunnikrishnan6032]

me everyday

[@guntherschubert3973]

Roger that!!🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@rebeccabrown733]

💙

[@ogreactual2790]

Just don't Anesthetize yourself 😉

[@XxXCaptainJakkXxX]

You mean utter depression

[@briang6040]

As a train enthusiast and a musician and music lover, this is the perfect song all day and all night long. Great song by a great band.

[@jonathanpusar5931]

You described exactly why I love this song. Grew up around trains. Constantly on them. There’s something oddly romantic about rail.

[@octane6916]

What about Train of Consequences by Megadeth? My personal favorite train related song lol. The main riff in that is supposed to sound like a train engine too 😂

[@anxietify]

absolutely agree

[@alihasanabdullah7586]

I may be reaching but it seems the song is not at all about Trains, but about young love, and...... incest....?

[@bartomiejr8457]

"When I hear the engine pass I'm kissing you wide, The hissing subsides, I'm in luck..." I would give everything to have memories like these, that I could make a song about...

[@jeffreyjohnston3827]

This song is about incestuous rape though.

[@eeeeeeeeee]

+Jeffrey Johnston Voice of reason always hurts lol

[@SimpleMaan]

Srsly? Where have you found this? I've never thought it could be about something like this :) I thought the explanation of the lyrics was quite similar to the one explained here: songmeanings.com/m/songs/view/3530822107858481529/

[@gabrielpompe8316]

Bartek Rusek the whole album is about a serial killer. it's not linear. you can figure it out.

[@rockfrolic6249]

Always the summers are slipping away... That line defines my life.

[@wolfsoul9796]

Find me a way for making it stay....

[@blitzkreig0000001]

Why, are you Canadian?

[@Vahisofficial]

Tejas Bailur I dunno about him but i'm Finnish and i think our last summer was on tuesday.. So it really slipped away.

[@tomduzewski8594]

Is your profile picture taken from "The Pot" video by Tool? Looks very similiar

[@fbgfresh1756]

I feel thatb

[@imlefter8003]

Ha I once asked my physics teacher for recommendations and he instantly popped up Porcupine Tree and King Crimson

[@horaceosirian8993]

You get that King Crimson is Satan, right? Kinda obvious, I know... Less obvious is that KC is code for 33 (K = 11th letter of the alphabet, C = 3rd; 11 x 3 = 33) Trust me, I could riff on occult / coded references in Porcupine Tree / Steven Wilson forever, too...I'll give you a single tidbit instead: • Lucy in Drive Home is a reference to LUCIFER (burned to death in fiery car wreck...) • Lily in The Raven That Refused To Sing is Lilith; Hebrew goddess / demoness, first wife of Adam in Hebrew mythology (Google it) - Satanic icon. PS: You get that trains are a common sexual reference, esp in movies, yeah? (Google...). Trains entering tunnels - surely I don't need to elaborate, hrm? (Again, Google). Well, interesting how the rear door or window of the train is lit as if by fire...hrm, I'll leave it to your imagination what that's about (any PT fan will know the loose theme of In Absentia is serial killers and the like...) PPS: Have a Cigar, by Floyd, is a refernce to the casting couch in the music industry. Riding the Gravy Train is a very crude reference, to a bunch of men enjoying the body of an attractive, young up and comer willing to sacrifice their body in service to their career, one after the other ("riding a train" on someone). "Come in here dear boy" So much sexual double entendre "Have a cigar" AKA wrap your lips around _this_ Which one's pink? Who's the fairy / who's getting a train ridden on 'em The name of the game We call it riding the gravy train Price of entry: train rides whenever requested

[@jarovanduren5641]

@@horaceosirian8993 tf?

[@AnssiRai]

Why did you ask your physics teacher for recommendations?

[@ragingkid9086]

@@horaceosirian8993 clown.

[@mousetouse]

@@horaceosirian8993 take your lithium.

[@subigyabikramthapa5198]

Some songs are just timeless piece of art. This is such masterpiece

[@Itsmegenn]

Yo subigya. Didn’t think I’d find you here 😂

[@subigyabikramthapa5198]

yo brother khusi lagyo bhetera haha

[@jojogpt]

4:46 to end, it's pure gold. I can't count the number of times I have replayed this part and every time it is able to blow me away.

[@astrolabeofficial3808]

Jyotirmay Gupta leaves me dumbfounded

[@Gwynbleidd66]

The drum fills is what makes it phenomenal for me I think. Other than simply being amazing.

[@jojogpt]

@@Gwynbleidd66 Really

[@ayuttaya.ambient]

Everyone that has heard this song knows exactly what you are saying Mr. Gupta. In solidarity...

[@nemozack3767]

@@Gwynbleidd66 Gavin Harrison, ladies and gentlemen!!!

[@pedrogodoy1816]

saying "i like trains" is finally accurate

[@Roy66802]

Man, this is one of the best songs I've ever heard

[@shashankkaushik2606]

A cottage on a hilltop and Steven Wilson's discography. Nothing else required 😍

[@tobiasboston5663]

Both sounds good actually

[@satwikburman6841]

shashank kaushik some good green too ;)

[@tristanfernandes4973]

hahaha , discovered this song on a lonely guesthouse in kudremukha , karnataka. Surrounded by a forest , whisky and this song !

[@vespertinus20]

I'm jelly. :'( .

[@NikhilVasishtR]

shashank kaushik Wow, and here I thought I was the only one thinking about such a scenario. What are the odds that I find another guy with the same thought?

[@blackbeast1996]

I still remember the first time i heard this song. I was coming back from a small village in himachal with about a tola of malana cream in my pocket and some of it in my system The weather was overcast and my mood was blue. I sat at the window side of the bus listeing to this song observing the little droplets of rain falling on the glass.

[@y4math]

Bhai, maal kadak thi kya?

[@nishchalthakur2487]

I heard it first time while travelling to my village in Himachal. The beauty of the song and the nature is just killer.

[@ashrutsood02]

Bhai where in himachal are you two from?

[@nepalimetal]

Come eat Nepal cream,Malai cream is supplied from here.

[@sharnsaini420]

Jai bhole baba

[@margaritabambach6414]

"I'm dying of love... It's ok" gets me evrytime

[@cosimopalermo8178]

A kaleidoscope of feelings.

[@omairsheikh3982]

Steven's music in a nutshell

[@paulahernandez9992]

Lyrics Train set and match spied under the blind Shiny and contoured the railway winds And I've heard the sound from my cousin's bed The hiss of the train at the railway head Always the summers are slipping away 60 ton angel falls to the earth A pile of old metal, radiant blur Scars in the country, summer and her Always the summers are slipping away Find me a way for making it stay When I hear the engine pass, I'm kissing you wide The hissing subsides, I'm in luck When the evening reaches here you're tying me up I'm dying of love, it's okay When I hear the engine pass, I'm kissing you wide Hissing subsides, I'm in luck When the evening reaches here you're tying me up I'm dying of love, it's okay Always the summers are slipping away Find me a way for making it stay Always the summers are slipping away Always the summers are slipping away

[@stephenboland3940]

Ive been around the rock scene all my life im 64 now. How in the namw of god did i miss this band. 😢

[@user-ky4xt7bw6f]

The acoustic solo is out of this world

[@darksinthe]

I showed someone "Opeth - Isolation Years' and they lead me to this band... Glad they did. Good stuff!

[@Rahuldudhraj]

come on Sir Steven Wilson is the sound engineer of Opeth ..

[@jakobjensen6598]

I also discovered Porcupine Tree through Opeth. Both of them are great! :)

[@CloudandTech]

same

[@MahfuzSaad]

same

[@BaphomentIsAwsome666]

Tool got me here lol

[@Abhi-rd4me]

As someone who absolutely loves trains since childhood, this song feels like poetry cradled on a melody. It teleports me back to my early school days. Taking a train to go to granny's, who lived in a town in the Himalayan foothills of India, during my long summer break : buying comics from the book stall at the station for the journey, peeking onto the tracks waiting for the train to approach, staring agog at the engine as it slithered its way into the platform, stepping back out of slight trepidation as the mammoth 60 tonne angel rolled in front of me hissing, hands covering my ears in apprehension should the pilot blow the deafening horn when the locomotive slowly passes just in front of me...With adrenaline soared, eyes lit up and awe still intact, I used to board the coach and comfortably nest on my window seat for the journey to begin. Ah! The joy of having breakfast from the pantry while looking at the delightful countryside scenes of cultivated mustard and sugarcane fields swaying in the wind like the coat of a Yorkshire terrier on the backseat window of a moving car. Being extra careful while handling beverage glasses due to body roll of the coaches at high speeds required some dexterity in that restless age. Trying to count the electric poles flying by the window would make my head swerve like a metalhead at a live concert but only sideways xD Watching the cars from inside when the railway tracks ran parallel to the adjacent road, imagining them to be in some sort of an unspoken race with us, and then being happy for no reason when they couldn't overtake. The smell of sugar and paper mills (none too pleasant by the way, yet much anticipated) wafting through the opened glass windows would herald crossing of the interstate boundary. Just before our destination station there'd be a long curved section of the track. It's so steeply curved that you can easily see the locomotive and the succeeding coaches from the window if you are towards the back. As we passed that, it was time to pack our bags and be ready to deboard in a few minutes with the newly formed hilly skyline awaiting us... As I reminisce these visuals almost two decades later in a far-away land with my eyes closed while this song plays on headphones, an overly curious friend nudges me from the side to ask : "what is it that you're listening that's making you smile non-stop for the last 5 minutes?" Totally unaware of it but not wanting to break free from the reverie, I wink and reply with a smile that has now momentarily turned impish from musing, "You won't get it", and proceed to fall back on my cosy sojourn :)

[@MySpark100]

Bruh, 10/10 that took me on a journey damn

[@yangerjamir0906]

My term paper essay was shorter than your comment😁😁😁

[@ananyasharma4606]

very well written, i can relate, absolutely

[@akshaymallya6431]

Ruskin Bond, real id se baahar aa

[@kuku2284]

😊💖

[@forThe_7]

It’s 2021 and not expired 🔥♥️ that’s the beauty of music ♥️. Porcupine Tree is the best prog. Rock ever🔥

[@manco828]

This is how music is supposed to be.

[@MacElMasMancoDeTodos]

Trains... That beautiful 60 tons machines with a lineal life. Two steel rails drawing their way across the world. No matters the cargo, no matters the distance. They start the journey and like an unforgettable dream... *TRAINS ARE NOT JUST MACHINES: THEY'RE ANGELS*

[@user-si8pb6sg6x]

Tool Opeth P.tree A gift of God.

[@12dark21]

U have a good taste in music bro

[@andresfelipemarquezochoa9804]

T O P ???

[@jonathanrynjah]

No. POT

[@bhavikasicka7871]

I discovered Porcupine Tree years ago, back in India, before I moved to the US. Steven Wilson's voice is phenomenal. His music tugs at something deep, evokes emotions unnamable, inscrutable... Such an underrated artist, truly.

[@horaceosirian8993]

His voice is often criticized as being lacklustre. I never noticed it myself, I mean he's no Chris Cornell, or Freddie Mercury, sure, but his music is absolutely phenomenal, and I dig his singing. The vocal note he hits at the very beginning of Grace For Drowning...amazing. The chorus of Open Car, live...incredibly evocative / emotional. Synaesthesia, Sever, What Happans Now, Drive Home, The Raven That Ref. To Sing...

Arey mayedam aap yaha bhi😆

[@josueignaciomm]

There are somedays I just wouldn't make it if I didn't leave this shit on repeat the whole evening. Thank you Steven.

[@kanejacob]

leave*

[@0_Ka-Bar_0]

Exactly

[@fabiogrosso2101]

​@@kanejacob , r, g, G, tv K O N

[@blueriverg]

One of my most favourite songs in the world.

[@TheMelantroduction]

everyone who listens to this song is special.

[@pooplup111]

You know, I see a lot of people saying they want to hear it for the first time again. For me it’s just getting better with every listen

[@stoneyj1a1]

This band is so great yet under the radar. How did I never hear of them until last year? They're hiding all the great rock from us.

[@omairsheikh3982]

The greatest bands are normally underappreciated, because they're not "easy listening" or mainstream. They require time to peel their layers

[@rohanramgude7874]

Listen to this when you feel sad or down ! Listen to this when your happy ! Listen to this when you close your eyes ! Its gives you shiver ,it gives you the power to do something !

[@pushkarkukde7805]

+rohan ramgude Dude! It's Porcupine Tree for pete's sake.....They are MEANT to send shivers down your spine... :)

[@rohanramgude7874]

+Pushkar Kukde Roger that mate !!!

[@Erowid13]

you know the song is about a serial killer right?

[@failed8716]

Explain? That's interesting!

[@Erowid13]

Got my albums mixed up softly. In absentia is about the serial killer. This album is about a death from a car accident. I think a child dies.

[@mianderthal0]

The comment section on this video is phenomenonal.

[@MrShahid0072]

Well..so are you!😚😛

[@vinayak080]

Jules Gilmour lol 😂😂

[@MrShahid0072]

Vinayak Shivhare these girls never reply. They start a whole universe under their comments and people spend years there fighting, making friends, telling jokes, growing up. 😛

[@vinayak080]

Jules Gilmour lol true😂😂

[@MrShahid0072]

Vinayak Shivhare btw if she replies someday I'm calling dibs right now😂

[@ahnafnafi1661]

Every single instrument sounds perfect. Nothing extra, nothing short. Just perfect

[@niveshpatil1423]

1:16 my favorite part, oh wait............. no fuck this shit, the whole song is my favorite part

[@madd0gg542]

lmao

[@andreideaconu7232]

Is this joke still made?

[@codyjackson6850]

Light Yagami from 5:57 onwards is the best drums just sound awesome

[@krss7559]

I found this by accident, the best thing that happened to me this month. Thank you ^^

[@hobofinalflash1681]

Indeed a gift to discover porcupine tree. Im genuinely happy for you my brother

[@forcesaveurexaltezvospapil7866]

Also try Steven Wilson solo albums.

[@johnstewart2981]

This is certainly the best love song ever, and possibly the best example of masterful songwriting. The first half of this song are some of the best minutes in all of music history.

[@Robett11]

Well said man this is truly a masterpiece 🙌🏻

[@shahalamrain2372]

sometime a song is enough for making a band great and sometime a line is good enough for making a song great "always the summers are slipping away"

[@IOxyrinchus]

I’ve only just discovered this song and it makes me realise how much of a genius Steven Wilson is. I’m a Porcupine Tree fan for life now, no turning back. This song gives me the feels like you wouldn’t believe. It takes me somewhere special, makes me feel ethereal. It’s such a simple but beautiful masterpiece.

[@bremen8860]

If there is indeed a God, he listens to Porcupine Tree.

[@toprak3479]

He *plays** in Porcupine Tree, his name is Gavin. Had to make this joke.

[@youareamazing6385]

God is real.

[@gabepastel3447]

@@youareamazing6385 witch one

[@davecrupel2817]

@@gabepastel3447 yes

[@silverballs9399]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/eJ6Ym6Bon9Srq7s

[@Conawbaa]

This has to be one of the best songs ever written, and I don't use the phrase lightly.

[@omairsheikh3982]

With one of the best acoustic guitar solos ever

[@DerMedivh]

Because good things like these are truly timeless. Greetings to all of you who still enjoy this very moment. Greetings from Germany.

[@eddietheguy12]

Why are these guys still so under the radar?!

[@JM1675]

Chaoteee That made me laugh, I have no idea why

[@ahmedrashed78]

Chaoteee hahahaha

[@saiprasad1413]

Chaoteee LOL

[@eddietheguy12]

Chaoteee Makes sense hahaha

[@Greekakias]

Thelucidbohemian cause they're good?

[@MsSkuli]

The first time I heard this song was at an art festival. Me and this guy were out for a date, we sat on the bench of this tiny and colourful square and waited for the performer to start. He took his guitar and started playing this song, acoustic version. The guy I was dating kept talking and talking, but I could not hear a single word of what he was saying: the song captivated and mesmerised me in a way very few songs ever did. I haven’t met that guy ever again, but that moment of our date will never be erased from my memory, just because of this song.

[@nickmelucci9414]

Every time is like the first time.

[@midnightsxtc]

1:15 60 ton angel falls to the earth A pile of old metal, radiant blur Scars in the country, summer and her

[@saaranganand]

timeless, ethereal song. Thank you PT

[@ashishpandya7790]

There are songs that grip you from beginning to end and come back to u in ur dreams . This is one of them .

[@POUGASDR]

One the best bands ever and so underrated!ffs

[@MarcJosep2]

It may be overlooked, but it's far from underrated

[@georgevacaru561]

POUGAS DR underrated? all Opeth videos may have 3mil. views, so in matter of metal/prog. viewers,this is actual a good thing

[@partricek8907]

Hey dude, The best things in life are NOT mainstream! Porcupine Tree is for special people :)

[@darcyaddz2904]

I'm flustered, I cannot think of a better song than this

[@dipanjanhojai1881]

#coys

[@LowRider1500]

porcupine tree is like tool without the violence

[@esunrise9004]

w ut

[@lynnloww5916]

Well said.

[@skepticmonkey6923]

You mean Opeth

[@46pi26]

This somehow actually makes sense

[@drewpeterson9236]

What exactly do you mean by "violence", just out of curiosity?

[@desertstar7664]

You don't need drugs , this is drug !

[@NinSenSan]

then... we don't need this?

[@sunnybynite91]

lol Komimi :D

[@NinSenSan]

s( '-' )7

[@mariodrinovac6008]

Pure genius!

[@TheElevatr]

What even is drugs?

[@alibaba-cl2ig]

It's this song that makes me discover Porcupine Tree and Steven Wilson...now one of my favourite group

[@cemre562]

The most beautiful song in the world. Like a old memory in tear

[@kenkupchyk4521]

Please Steve Wilson, put the band back together and tour again!!!! Your live performances are unbelievable - note for note near perfection! Some friends of mine introduced me to Porcupine Tree. Every time Porcupine would tour North America these guys would take in at least 4 shows. I thought they were nuts - until the first time I saw the band live. Now I wished I'd seen them live multiple times!

[@SneharthoDey]

Mallika. It's for every Porcupine Tree fans' best interest that not many people know about them. It is exactly the band's motive to bring together a community that understands each other. It's an "our thing" between PT and all of its fans. I'm glad that we confined lot are lucky to know and enjoy them instead of 800 million fans with most of them having no idea of what to listen to but follow the majority bandwagon.

[@MrShahid0072]

Mental masturbation 😂

[@tullfan7872]

It's great stuff - the best music is the type where you can hear something really special in it, but can't put your finger on what it is. Porcupine Tree has that in spades. I'm a big Jethro Tull fan and I got to know Steven Wilson's work after I found out he had remixed some classic Tull albums. Now I'm a fan of both.

[@kronoscamron7412]

trains are the years that pass you by, you wave to them but they don't slow down.

[@bb71185]

When everything else in life turns to crap there is always music like this to remind us that there is a heaven.

[@TheMetalhed82]

I see a lot of love from India - my home land - Cheers Buddies !!

[@anishlimbu2265]

Oh hey I'm your neighbour's! Guess which one. :!

[@w3irdo343]

@@anishlimbu2265 Maldives?

[@rritobakdutta8730]

@@anishlimbu2265 Nepal?

[@danielcropp8553]

Imagine writing this song. Working out the chord changes, the melody, the lyrics. Amazing stuff, what Human Beings are capable of!

[@TotalEntertainmentt]

When the god want us to create the music.❤️ They made this masterpiece 💫

[@ccandrew111]

Words can never describe how much i love this song

[@ism222]

This is pure art. Music from heaven. Stunning. Haunting. Beautiful. I have chills. Thank you Porcupine Tree!!

[@GorillaPHX]

I forgot this song. I forgot that I loved it, and how much I loved it, I can't explain well the emotions it evokes in me. All I can say is that to me it's so beautiful that it stirs something in me that wants to fight back against the malaise that years of life can sometimes coat over a human soul. *sigh* thank God I tripped over it again.

[@ChessDiagnostic]

I only played drums at the time, in 2004 or 2005, and I got this CD as "free promo" in Portland, OR after buying some drumsticks. I played that CD until it didn't work anymore until 2010 in my old toyota previa. This reminds of so much, girlfriends, first love, fear over the future, working towards things that you know will never happen, college, money. Now I have "made it" in a way. I am free and can do whatever I want. I'm having my first kid. Living in my house that I own. Time is strange, but so is human effort and how patience is a thing that people attribute to you after the fact. Getting what you want comes to the most impatient. But patience, I don't know what it is. But here I am. Thank you Porcupine Tree. That's all I can say, what a drunken rant.

[@rajatshrestha8315]

Thank you for everything Porcupine Tree And miss Diya Shrestha❤ I love you forever❤

[@djsnap6061]

Those were the best 6 minutes of my life ! I'm so high and found this band , I feel blessed right now.

[@RobiBanerjee87]

Some days, you sit by the train tracks and watch the big freighters blow their horns as they speed out of your city. They come with a roar, and then the freight cars blend into each other as the train gains momentum. But you're standing still, watching the world rush past.

[@daitya1]

In the memory of my best friend Aman who introduced me to Steven Wilson. I miss you brother.

[@Woo0922]

This song makes me realize that how much I loved, and how many bruises I got. Thank you.

[@arielrojas7179]

Sheldon Cooper love this song.

[@dogofgraam]

what do you mean?

[@srijalpokharel6197]

***** Sheldon cooper likes trains.

[@dogofgraam]

he mentioned it on the big bang theory?

[@Tobinicus]

***** Seriously? That's one of Sheldon's quirks is that he loves trains and comic books...

[@GravelLeft]

Just now I had to go and listen to this song after watching the last episode of The big bang theory season 7.. I feel really strange and emotional, but it feels good.. If you watch that episode, perhaps you'll get what I mean Oo

[@jojogpt]

I don't really know if it's my favorite song, but it's the song i listen to always. It's the song that I play no matter what I'm feeling, it's a song that takes me to a place I can't explain, some place where I think everything is alright.

[@ExtrainADogsLife]

First heard this song performed by some friends at a high school music festival. I didn't know one of them could play guitar, blew me away.

[@randlerobbertson8792]

As a lifelong Yes fan. I can see they( porcupine tree) have consistently carried the prog baton on to new heights. PS Steve Wilsons prog remasters are exceptional too, offering new insights to already brilliant recordings. ❤

[@ciaranhickey6961]

I remember being a child and having a favourite song. Once I got a bit older, having a favourite song or favourite band was seen as being uncool. That you could commit to something and designate that as being your favourite, meant that you were childish, investing so much into something, like Santa Clause. Being a 30 year old man I can definitively say Trains is my favourite song and I’m happy to say that.

[@rus19297]

Never heard of this band until about an hour ago. This is the second song I’ve heard just now. I’m digging into more after this. I’m impressed with the songwriting and musical talent. Most times you get one or the other. Not today.

[@TheMoonlightPurple]

And how's it been 2 years from this? :)

[@Sandesh98147]

Please check out arriving somewhere but not here and Lazarus

[@blairlohnes8103]

Every once in a while this one pops in my head. Such a great track.

[@davecrupel2817]

"60 ton angel falls to the earth" Im picturing a big steamer just dropping out of the clouds, about to grand-slam somebody's house. Looney tunes falling sound effect and all. Cracking myself up in the process.

[@swapniltalwelkar4776]

Seriously, we are alot of indians, into steven and P. T

[@thenotorious3823]

Yes Bhai 🤯

[@vaishnavplays203]

han bhai...

[@joynag6774]

Ekdum sahi...lekin baat kya h na aajkal k log mainstream sunna zyada pasand karne lage..aur ye gane jinka taste acha h wahi sunte h...like if its true what i said

[@MallikaMenon]

Absolutely yes! Crazy, bro!

[@jagratrajrana]

More than I imagined lol but that's a good thing.

[@maybevinny2284]

These are the vibes i be feeling rn

[@crappykeys]

I'm just leaving this comment here to remind me that I was here once again June 30th 2020

[@youareamazing6385]

Yeah but do you even August 23 bro..?

[@tullfan2560]

Leaving a trail of breadcrumbs.

[@KaZe-gs2ru]

June 30 is my birthday :-)

[@anchitkumar8963]

The guitar intro always gets to me. Listened to this song a few days ago at a party and was completely blown away by it.

[@ralphkaldawy]

Can't get enough of the sound waves that this song emits!

[@ayuttaya.ambient]

So many of Porcupine Tree's music are anthems to power. I always feel empowered no matter the message of their music.

[@jojogpt]

KZbin has officially added this song. But this upload is the one I always listen, to read the beautiful comments from the beautiful people.

[@geoffsimpson1543]

God bless the man who introduced me to Porcupine Tree