Runaway Train by Soul Asylum

This song was a hit during the year 1992 and truth be told I was 7 years old at that time. Our next door neighbor has 3 sons whose youngest was 10 years older than I am and they had this song playing every now and then at full volume. The song's entitled Runaway Train by Soul Asylum

Runaway Train by Soul Asylum

Call you up in the middle of the night

Like a firefly without a light

You were there like a blow torch 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

[Chorus]

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

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

And Everything seems 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 outta touch, little insane

Just easier than dealin with the pain

[Chorus]

Runaway train never comin' back

Runaway train tearin' up the track

Runaway train burnin' in my veins

I runaway but it always seems the same