Siberia by Tess Callaghan from Galway Ireland

Song about escaping from it all on the trans Siberian express

Siberia

One night in Naxos town
I drank too much
And I fell down
The wind it howled such a lonely song
An old lady neighbour friend
Said words against the evil eye
Did luck happen in just one burst
So quick and strong
It had to hurt
And it shook me from the stupor
Of my birth
It left me longing for the same
Just once again

Siberia
Take me away from here
With strangers on a train
To find myself again
Siberia

Yes I’m travelling on my own
They look surprised
Like I’m a danger to myself
To fill the silence maybe I should explain
But we’re barely on first names
So I watch the silver birch and the poplar trees roll by
Strangers they speak so free
There's a temporary intimacy
With red wine flowing
I see the waiter’s left his own bottle close-by
And rows and rows of tin roof houses
With egg s blue fences are outside
While in the carriage
The Russian army
Have taken all the bunks
And surround me
At least techniy
Now we're roommates

Siberia
Take me away from here
With strangers on a train
To find myself again

Siberia
Mos to Eastern Plains
Leave the scenery unchanged
To find myself again
In Siberia

Captain Vitaly likes to speak
We translate through his phone
I ask about the trans siberian tiger
He looks at me like I'm a bit confused
Then smiling guides us through
Ekaterinenburg station to the hot food stand
And the self-prognosis
Well all I can see
Are the endless grasslands
Only broken by trees
And the 1000s and 1000s of miles of farmland
It's a mesmerising monotony
As we go deep, deep eastward bound
Into the land even exiles made a paradise
And I take my time

Siberia
Take me away from here
With strangers on a train
To find myself again

Siberia
Mos to the Eastern plain
Leave the scenery unchanged
So I can find myself again
In Siberia

Siberia
Wont't you help me find myself again
Siberia

Release date
March 26, 2018

Record label
Tess Callaghan