I took the cannon ball down to the ocean across the desert from the sea to shining sea I rode a ladder that climbs across the nation 50 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 were 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 got nowhere else to go "How do you do?" She said "Hey, 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?"