I wrote this song in Washington Heights. After having broken up with my girlfriend, and couch-surfed, I landed in Brooklyn. I spent about a year there, and I didn't get much writing done. The Navigators were beginning to tour, and we were playing bigger clubs in New York City. I began demoing every song that I had written, so the band could hear all the material, and I guess I didn't have a lot to say. I had gone through a "poor pitiful me" period, and I had written enough break-up songs.
I heard that my ex-girlfriend's boyfriend had gotten beaten up on the A train. I thought, "You take a chance on a midnight train," and that line immediately made me think there was a song there. By the end of the day, I had written the song. I think the song was in our repertoire within a month. Within a couple of months, we were recording the song at Cowboy Technical for the album that became Glory, Glory. Honestly, there was a full length album that was never released. I didn't even put all the tracks on Meet the Navigators... Again, because no one has a copy of them.
I always thought, and hoped that album would have been released in all its, um, glory, but despite spending thousands of dollars recording a full length album, we didn't release one. It reminds me of the old saying, "One boy, one brain; two boys, half a brain; three boys, no brain at all." Parents understand that saying. To be fair to the band, the label was also trying to shape the album, and they sent us down a few dead ends as well. Sometimes when the stakes get high, you can't make good choices. I find it ironic that we didn't pull the trigger on this one.
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