# Trains to Brazil

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{{Infobox song
| name     = Trains to Brazil
| cover    = Trains to Brazil.png
| alt      =
| type     = single
| artist   = [Guillemots](/source/Guillemots_(band))
| album    = [Through the Windowpane](/source/Through_the_Windowpane)
| released = {{Start date|2005|12|05|df=y}}
| recorded = 2005
| studio   =
| genre    = [Indie rock](/source/Indie_rock)
| length   = 15:46
| label    = [Fantastic Plastic](/source/Fantastic_Plastic_Records)
| writer   = [Fyfe Dangerfield](/source/Fyfe_Dangerfield)
| producer =
| year         = 2005
| next_title   = [Of the Night](/source/Of_the_Night_(EP))
| next_year    = 2006
| misc     = 
}}

"'''Trains to Brazil'''" is the debut single by [England](/source/England)-based [indie rock](/source/indie_rock) band [Guillemots](/source/Guillemots_(band)), which appears on their 2006 releases ''[Through the Windowpane](/source/Through_the_Windowpane)'' and ''[From the Cliffs](/source/From_the_Cliffs)''. The 2005 single contains three tracks and was released on CD and in limited [vinyl](/source/Gramophone_record) 10-inch formats. It was later re-released chart eligibly on 11 September 2006, peaking at number 36.

==Overview==
In an interview for [BBC](/source/BBC) Brazil, [MC Lord Magrão](/source/MC_Lord_Magr%C3%A3o), the band's guitar player, explained that the song title "Trains to Brazil" is a reference to the fatal incident involving the Brazilian [Jean Charles de Menezes](/source/Jean_Charles_de_Menezes), who was shot by the police on the [London Underground](/source/London_Underground), and that the band's singer/keyboardist [Fyfe Dangerfield](/source/Fyfe_Dangerfield) composed the song in 2002 originally under the title "Life Song".<ref name=Pitchfork>{{cite web|url=https://pitchfork.com/features/lists-and-guides/7693-the-top-500-tracks-of-the-2000s-20-1/?page=3|title=The 200 Best Songs of the 2000s: 170. Guillemots: "Trains to Brazil"|date=August 21, 2009|website=pitchfork.com|publisher=[Pitchfork](/source/Pitchfork_(website))|access-date=November 21, 2021}}</ref>

Fyfe describes the title track as follows:
{{quote|It was weird, I wrote in 2002 and was sort of thinking about the whole [Twin Towers](/source/September_11%2C_2001_attacks) thing, but then a couple of months before the [London bombings](/source/July_2005_London_bombings) we decided to drag this song out and do it as a single, and then all that stuff happened. On my birthday, as fate would have it – 7 July. Very odd. But yes, it's also just a song about appreciating life, I guess.}}

All of the tracks from this single appeared on the 2006 international release "[From the Cliffs](/source/From_the_Cliffs)".

The B-side "Go Away" appeared on a compilation CD from British music magazine ''[NME](/source/NME)''.

==Track listings==
===Original release===
#"Trains to Brazil" (Fyfe Dangerfield) – 4:01
#"Go Away" – 7:47
#"My Chosen One" – 3:14

===Re-issue===
====CD====
# "Trains to Brazil"
# "White Rag" (Demo)
# "Blue Eyes"

====7-inch====
# "Trains to Brazil"
# "Witch Doctor"

====7-inch====
# "Trains to Brazil"
# "You Can Look (But You Can't Touch)" (featuring Freakshow)
# "All The People Say"

==References==
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Category:2005 songs
Category:2005 debut singles
Category:2006 singles
Category:Guillemots (band) songs
Category:Songs about trains

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