Soul Asylum
Runaway Train
Grave Dancers Union (1992)

C(eg)  C(df)  C  Csus4 C

C(sus2)
Call you up in the middle of the night
Em(7)/B
Like a firefly without a light
Am(sus4)
You were there like a blowtorch burnin'
G(sus2)
I was a key that could use a little turnin'

So I'm tired and 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

F(sus4)          G(sus4)             C                    Am(sus2)
Seems no one can help me now and I'm in too deep, there's no way out
F(sus4)          Em           G(sus2)
This time I have really let myself astray

  C
  Runaway train never going back
  Em/B
  Runaway on a one way track
  Am
  Seems like I should be getting somewhere
  G
  Somehow I'm neither here nor there

G  G!  d/e d b

Can you help me remember how to smile
Make it somehow all seem worthwhile
How on Earth did I get so jaded
Life's mysteries seem so faded

I can go where no one else can go
I know what no one else knows
Here I am just drowning in the rain
With a ticket for a runaway train

Everything seems cut and dry, day and night, Earth and sky
Somehow I just don't believe it

  Refrain

C  Em/B  Am  G  F  G  C  Am  F  Em  G  w/ solo

Got a ticket for a runaway train                 (doux)
Like a madman laughing at the rain
Little out of touch, little insane
It's just easier than dealing with the pain

  Refrain

  Runaway train never coming back
  Runaway train tearing up the track
  Runaway train burning in my veins
  Runaway but it always seems the same

C  Em/B  Am  G  x 3  ... fade out