I took the cannonball down to the ocean. Across the desert from sea to shining sea. I rode a ladder that climbs across the nation. Fifty 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 where she comes from. She climbs aboard because she's scared of getting older in the snow. Love is a ghost train rumbling through the darkness. Hold on to me darling I've got nowhere else to go. "How do you do?". She said "How do you do?". I took the cannonball down to the ocean. Watched 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?".