Track from Switchfoot frontman Jon Foreman’s first solo EP, Fall. Beautiful song… Lyrics: Oh, I guess they’ll say I’ve grown I know more than I wanted to know I’ve said more than I wanted to say I’m headed home Yeah, but I’m not so sure That home is a place You can still get to by train So I’m looking out the window And I’m drifting off to sleep With my face pressed up against the pane With the rhythm of my heart And the ringing in my ears It’s the rhythm of the Southbound Train Oh, when the wind starts to look like her hair The clouds in her bright blue eyes As the sea and the shore fall and rise Like her breast as she breathes by my side And the moon is her lips as the sun Is headed on down to the sea Like her head as she lays down on me Until we reach Oceanside Over and over I hear the same refrain It’s the rhythm of my heart And my sleepy girl’s breathing It’s the rhythm of my Southbound Train Oh, I suppose they’ll say I should’ve known Or maybe I’m just feeling old Like a lawyer With no one to blame I’m headed home Yeah, but I’m not so sure That home is a place That will ever be the same So we gather up our things And we head out in the cold And your eyes are where you carry the pain When I hear the whistle weeping It’s crying to the sky It’s the rhythm of the Southbound Train It’s the rhythm of the Southbound Train…
Tags: Foreman, Southbound, Train
I don’t understand how you could possibly interpret this song that way
I don’t know why, but every time I listen to his Songs, when I read his lyrics, I feel wiser and blessed.
I know when I left home at 14 and came back…
home was never the same :>(
Is this song about sex?
i dont think so. ur putting too much thought into that one line. that wouldnt make any sense
Jon Foreman has a gift for making one cry over simple songs…..
I could listen to this song all day, but my officemate would be unhappy…
I think that Every Switchfoot Jon foreman fam, and anyone who knows Jon is proud of him. I know i sure am
it’d be a great bonus if he were also proud of himself, but also what he has done for so many ppl without the prospect of gaining much himself. and when u say SWITCHFOOT AND JON FOREMAN ROCK u couldnt be mmore correct my freind 
Agreed Major.
no, i think the ‘pane’ pun was intentional.. very interesting, i’m glad you said that
oh. my. gosh.
this is my story. like, word for word (except in this case the girl’s the one on the train), everything is just how it hapened to me- even the fact that it happened in Oceanside.
this song is perfect.
i dont know why but somehow i think that the line ”With my face pressed up against the pane” has a lot of meaning
pane also got me thinking of pain
im sure that its not intentionally that way but… u know the line gets me thinking
great vid for a great song
loved it
I love this song,its sooo,I don’t know…kinda…making me happy and sad at the same time,amazing : )
I could listen to this song every day for the rest of my life/ until I get home lol … and not even begin to tire of it
i haven’t even listened to the song yet but lookin at all these comments i tink that Jon shud be proud of himself….i tink he’s doin a great job for the man up there…he always says that he wnts to try to write songs that do more than just entertain n he ’s done that extremely well lookin at all these comments ….Jon Foreman and Switchfoot ROCK!!!!!
Hmmm…
Interesting point. Never thought about it that way before…
home like heaven?
that’s what i think he’s talking about.
i mean “somewhere past the setting sun.”
I freaking love this song. I love singing it and playing it. Makes me feel like I’m somewhere else. Not around people. Just me. Breathing in the air with no worries, no sorrows, nothing. I never want to leave that feeling.
But anyway, this song reminds my of my old house in northern VA (like 3 miles from the border north) I miss all the nature there, and my friends, and the mountains, the streams, everything, all the good times.
I live in a city now, and I feel the deep longing for home mentioned in this song.
this song:
“I’m headed home
Yeah, but I’m not so sure
That home is a place
You can still get to by train”
The setting sun:
“My hope runs underneath it all, the day that I’ll be home
It won’t be long, I belong
somewhere past the setting sun
finally free, finally strong,
somewhere back where I belong.”
a real re-accuring theme with Jon (that never really gets old either) is songs about home… and that our home is not on this earth.
I love Jon’s works, such a great composer.
as far as I’m concerned, he is up there with beethoven and mozart.
I love his eps, and this song really captures the spirit of fall.
such a wonderful song i love it
BEAUTIFUL, Jon. Thank you. Thank you.
ahh, beautiful video! i love this song. it’s so pure and honest and touching.
this song is so moving.
its almot orgasmic…haha. i love it and i love the person who got me hooked on john foreman.