Song Details
- Album Release Date: 2012
- Genre: psych-rock
Song Meaning of “No Train to Stockholm” by Lee Hazlewood
No Train to Stockholm is a somber and melancholic tune about the struggles of a relationship that is coming to an end. The song tells the story of a man struggling to come to terms with the fact that his relationship with a lover has deteriorated, eventually leading to its demise and their inevitable separation.
The protagonist is left alone in a room (possibly his home) with nothing but his sorrow and sadness to accompany him while he looks outside his window to the world moving around him, but there is no train that will take him back to Stockholm, where the person he loves is. He reflects on the love and happy times they shared while envisioning himself on a train heading to his lost love, but only to find himself riding on a ghost train—a journey that will never be realized.
The lyrics and melody of the song capture the heartache and loneliness of coming to grips with the end of a relationship, and ultimately, the acceptance of the cold reality that it is time to move on.