Call you up in the middle of the night
Like a firefly without a light
You were there like a slow torch 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 have really led myself astray


CHORUS
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 mystery seems so faded

I can go where no one else can go

I know what no one else knows
Here I am just drownin' in the rain
With a ticket for a runaway train


Everything is cut and dry
Day and night, earth and sky

Somehow I just don't believe it

CHORUS


Bought a ticket for a runaway train
Like a madman laughin' at the rain

Little out of touch, little insane
Just easier than dealing with the pain


Runaway train never comin' back
Runaway train tearin' up the track
Runaway train burnin' in my veins

Runaway but it always seems the same