He said "I'm gonna buy this place and burn it down
I'm gonna put it six feet underground"
He said "I'm gonna buy this place and watch it fall
Stand here beside me baby in the crumbling walls"

Former Companhia Paulista Jundiaí Locomotive Maintenance Shops, August 31, 2003: the scrapping of the V8 locomotives has just began. Pieces of the former #6103 are in the ground; #6390 seems to watch her fate. Photo by Fernando Picarelli Martins, from Jundiaí SP. The lyrics were extracted from the song A Rush of Blood to the Head, from the homonymous Coldplay album.



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