| Trains to Brazil | |
| Cover: | Trains to Brazil.png |
| Type: | single |
| Artist: | Guillemots |
| Album: | Through the Windowpane |
| Recorded: | 2005 |
| Genre: | Indie rock |
| Length: | 15:46 |
| Label: | Fantastic Plastic |
| Year: | 2005 |
| Next Title: | Of the Night |
| Next Year: | 2006 |
"Trains to Brazil" is the debut single by Guillemots which appears on their 2006 releases Through the Windowpane and From the Cliffs. The 2005 single contains three tracks and was released on CD and in limited vinyl 10-inch formats. It was later re-released chart eligibly on 11 September 2006, peaking at number 36.
In an interview for BBC Brazil, MC Lord Magrão, 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, who was shot by the police on the London Underground, and that the band's singer/keyboardist Fyfe Dangerfield composed the song in 2002 originally under the title "Life Song".[1]
Fyfe describes the title track as follows:
All of the tracks from this single appeared on the 2006 international release "From the Cliffs".
The B-side "Go Away" appeared on a compilation CD from British music magazine NME.