"Runaway Train" lyrics

"Runaway Train"
(Live from Minneapolis, MN. 2022)
(originally by Soul Asylum)


Call you up in the middle of the night
Like a firefly without a light
You were there like a blowtorch burning
I was a key that could use a little turning

So tired that I couldn't even sleep
So many secrets I couldn't keep
Promised myself I wouldn't weep
One more promise I couldn't keep

It seems no one can help me now
I'm in too deep
There's no way out
This time I've really led myself astray

Runaway train never going back
Wrong way on a one-way track
Seems like I should be getting somewhere
Somehow I'm neither here nor there

Can you help me remember how to smile?
Make it somehow all seem worthwhile
How on earth did I get so jaded?
Life's a mystery that seems so faded

I can go where no one else can go
I know what no one else knows
Here I am, just drowning in the rain
With a ticket for a runaway train

And everything seems still cut and dry
Day and night
Earth and sky
Somehow I just don't believe it

Runaway train never coming back
Wrong way on a one-way track
Seems like I should be getting somewhere
Somehow I'm neither here nor there

Bought a ticket for a runaway train
Like a madman laughing in the rain
A little out of touch, a little insane
It's just easier than dealing with the pain

Runaway train never going back
Wrong way on a one-way track
Seems like I should be getting somewhere
Somehow I'm neither here nor there

Runaway train never coming back
Runaway one-way track
Runaway train burning up my veins
Runaway but it's always the same

Runaway train never coming back
Runaway train tearing up the track
Runaway train burning in my veins
Runaway but it's always the same

Runaway train never coming back
Wrong way on a one-way track
Seems like I should be getting somewhere
Somehow I'm neither here nor there


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