#silverpilen

Murder on the Silverpilen

Stay, Stay, stay, Strong whispers in my ears, Hands on my throat, But the train approaches, It has my name on it. And my throat slits, Blood drooping through the veins, My words curl into nightmares, You just stand there and stare. Stab, stab, stab, A dagger in my stomach, My knees weak, I fall, My hands reach out to you in the dark, The ghosts of my past.

I run, run, run, But I don't move, The shadows confine me to my room, It's dust, it's dark, it's maroon, It's love and desire melted into gloom. Cry, cry, cry, Gusts of winds waving me goodbye, Handcuffs on my arms, But there goes the alarm. Those eyes, those eyes, God please don't give me those eyes, Please don't say whatever you wish to, Cause I already know, And there's nothing that can change us now. My love, my love, my love, It has no bounds, But sometimes it's not enough, Let me go I am going crazy here. A mad, mad, mad woman, That's all they call me, Put me out of my misery, All my fault was that I loved thee. Stay, stay, stay, Soft words in my ears, Thunderstorm in my heart, The train's leaving ahead, I'm falling behind, I'm just a young woman losing her mind. Pain, pain, pain, It burns my soul, My love was once a paradise, It's eating me like parasite, The ghosts of our past waltz in my dreams, I see a fading us through the seams.

Silverpilen

The silver train was only rarely seen by the average Stockholm dweller. The background for the ghost stories associated with Silverpilen may be related to the eerie look of Silverpilen if seen arriving late at night to an open-air underground station. People were used to green metro trains and were surprised at the arrival of a silver colored train: particularly if they had lived in Stockholm all their life and were unaware of the existence of the unpainted unit. The stories that circulated most widely in the 1980s have been retold by the noted Swedish folklorist Bengt af Klintberg, and later featured in the December 10, 1997 instalment of Det spökar; a television series dedicated to allegedly real ghost stories and haunted houses. There are different versions of this urban legend. 

The Silverpilen ghost train is the name given to a phantom locomotive from urban legend in Stockholm, Sweden. The Silverpilen, or Silver Arrow, is a metro train manufactured in the mid-1960s, often used as a backup in Stockholm.

As the Silverpilen was rarely seen by the average citizen of Stockholm, it became the subject of speculation and rumour, with a ghostly silver train said to haunt abandoned subway tunnels. Other stories say that it will pass through stations at midnight, with any passengers who embark upon it disappearing, getting off weeks or months later or vanishing entirely.

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