PTSD Patrol Train of Hope

PTSD Partol
Kathie Costos
October 8, 2020

Today the featured video is Bruce Springsteen, Hope and Dreams, This Train. It got me thinking of how people can get a narrow line of vision where all they see is what is negative. If that is all you look for, then you do not see what is good, what is possible and discover something to hope for. With PTSD, you tend to cling to misery because it is what you know is there, but when you open your eyes to the hope of healing, that is what you begin to search for. It is a lot better to look at your life with hope than it is to settle for what you have. #BreakTheSilence and #TakeBackYourLife from #PTSD

Oh oh this train, I'm riding this train

Don't you wanna ride 

(This train)

Oh get on, get on (this train)

Grab your ticket and your suitcase

Thunder's rolling down the tracks

You don't know where you're goin' now

But you know you won't be back

Darlin' if you're weary

Lay your head upon my chest

We'll take what we can carry

And we'll leave the rest

Big wheels rolling through fields

Where sunlight streams

Meet me in a land of hope and dreams

I will provide for you

And I'll stand by your side

You'll need a good companion

For this part of the ride

Leave behind your sorrows

Let this day be the last

Tomorrow there'll be sunshine

And all this darkness past

Big wheels roll through fields

Where sunlight streams

Meet me in a land of hope and dreams

This train carries saints and sinners

This train carries losers and winners

This train carries whores and gamblers

This train carries lost souls

I said, this train dreams will not be thwarted

This train faith will be rewarded

This train hear the steel wheels singin'

This train bells of freedom ringin'

This train carries saints and sinners

This train carries losers and winners

This train carries whores and gamblers

This train carries lost souls

I said, this train carries broken-hearted

This train thieves and sweet souls departed

This train carries fools and kings

This train, all aboard

I said, this train dreams will not be thwarted

This train faith will be rewarded

This train hear the steel wheels singin'

This train bells of freedom ringin'

Come on this train

People get ready

You don't need no ticket

All you got do is just get on board 

On board this train

This train, people get ready

You don't need no ticket (oh I know you don't)

You don't need no ticket you just get on board (people get ready) 

You just thank the Lord (people get ready)

Come on this train (people get ready)

Source: LyricFind

Songwriters: Bruce Springsteen / Curtis Mayfield

Land of Hope and Dreams lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Warner Chappell Music, Inc 

Bruce Springsteen Land of Hope and Dreams This Train (Superstorm: Hurricane Sandy Benefit Concert)