Engines rev and trumpets roar
I don't hear your voice no more
And living isn't worth the fear of dying

Wrapped up package torn up clothes
Empty days and deep dark holes
The only thing that keeps a man from crying


Oh if I don't get you back I'll fall upon a railroad track
And let the steel wheels cut right through my bones

Oh if I don't get you back I'll cover up my bloody tracks
With sorrow hopes and hide my dying pride
Oh cause I'm alive


Whispers in a losers dream
Holding on to not a thing

Cause these arms now are paralyzed without you to hold
Bold with crazy have no fear
Children cry and then I hear

The message my lies tell me in my dreams

Oh if I don't get you back I'll fall upon a railroad track

And let the steel wheels cut right through my bones
Oh if I don't get you back I'll cover up my bloody tracks
With sorrow hopes and hide my dying pride

Oh cause I'm alive

Maybe if I caught the rain

In pails that filter out the pain
I'd realize why you had to go
Days of lightning show the way

And night time creeps and holds at bay
The missing you, the mean, the cold, the ugly


Oh if I don't get you back I'll fall upon a railroad track
And let the steel wheels cut right through my bones
Oh if I don't get you back I'll cover up my bloody tracks

With sorrow hopes and hide my dying pride
Oh cause I'm alive