Runaway Train – English Lyrics

• By: Soul Asylum
• Album: Grave Dancers Union

Lyrics & Translation

[English]

(sirens wailing)

(upbeat music)

♪ Call you up in the middle of the night ♪

♪ Like a firefly without a light ♪

♪ You were there like a blowtorch burnin' ♪

♪ I was a key that could use a little turnin' ♪

♪ 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 have really led myself astray ♪

♪ Runaway train, never goin' back ♪

♪ Wrong way, on a one way track ♪

♪ Seems like I should be gettin' 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 history seems so faded ♪

♪ I can go where no one else can go ♪

♪ I know what no one else knows ♪

♪ Here I am just a drownin' in the rain ♪

♪ With a ticket for a runaway train ♪

♪ And everything seems cut and dry ♪

♪ Day and night, earth and sky ♪

♪ Somehow I just don't believe it ♪

♪ Runaway train, never goin' 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 laughin' at the rain ♪

♪ A little out of touch, little insane ♪

♪ Just easier than dealin' with the pain ♪

♪ Runaway train, never goin' 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 comin' back ♪

♪ Runaway train, tearin' up the track ♪

♪ Runaway train, burnin' in my veins ♪

♪ I run away, but it always seems the same ♪