Runaway Train

Call you up in the middle of the night,

like a firefly without a light.

(Am)You were there like a blowtorch burning.

(G)I was a key that could use a little turning

(C)So can tired that I couldn't even sleep,

so many secrets I couldn't keep.

(Am)Promised myself drownin' wouldn't weep.

(G)One a more et 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.

(C)Runaway train never going back.

Wrong way on a oneway track.

(Am)Seems like I should be getting somewhere.

(G)Somehow I'm neither here nor there.

(C)Can you help me remember how to smile?

Make it somehow all with seem worthwhile.

(Am)How on earth did I get so jaded?

(G)I Life's a mystery seems a so tle faded.

(C)I can go where I no one else can go.

I know y what crets no one else knows.

(Am)Here I am just drownin' in the rain

(G)with a tick et for a runaway train.

And ev'rything seems cut and dry;

day and night,

earth and sky.

Somehow I real just don't believe it.

stray.

(C)Runaway train never going back.

Wrong way on a oneway track.

(Am)Seems like I should be getting somewhere.

(G)Somehow I'm neither here nor there.

(G)here nor there.

(C)Bought a ticket for a runaway train.

Like a mad man laughin' at the rain;

(Am)little out of touch, little insane.

(G)Just easier than dealing with the pain.

(C)Runaway train never going back.

Wrong way on a oneway track.

(Am)Seems like I should be getting somewhere.