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In the lyrics, the jailed [[protagonist]] listens to the whistle of a train outside his cell and recounts his crimes ("I shot a man in [[Reno]]/just to watch him die"), imagines the free people inside the train ("They're probably drinking coffee and smoking big cigars") and dreams of what he would do if he were free. "I know I had it coming/I know I can't be free," sings the imprisoned man. "But those people keep a'moving/and that's what tortures me."
 
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