Met a man on a train near santa fe Who was dead a minute as a child Fell off a dock He couldn't swim and his heart stopped A gold snake slid from the sky And swallowed him up He disappeared inside He disappeared inside The train stopped in a field of oil wells A blind girl needed help getting on The man was drunk from a flask half full of rum I shook my head When he offered me some Que sera, he said and took another swig The train roared up a hill of sickly pines A small boy chased a ball up the aisle As the black mouth of a tunnel swallowed us up We disappeared inside We disappeared inside Here we go