Runaway Train Songtext
von Drive‐By Truckers

We′re gonna take you back in time to a song
That me and Cooley started playing together back in 1987
We used to have a band called Adam's House Cat out of Muscle Shoals, Alabama
And we never quite made it this far
But we′re gonna take you back and do a song from those days that we wrote
And this song, ah, this was I guess as close to a single as that band had
This song's called "Runaway Train"

Me and my baby's on a runaway train, on a runaway train, on a runaway train

Runaway train, you and me
So damn glad it′s a one-way ride
Time′s running out, steaming faster
A non-stop joyride, no way back
Tell my mama I'm comin′ back home
Soon as this train runs off its track

Me and my baby's on a runaway train
Me and my baby′s on a runaway train, on a runaway train, on a runaway train


Be quiet, bitch, don't scream at me
Save your dirty looks for the undertaker
Before too long it′ll all be gone
Drops of blood in a boilermaker
Then we'll be on the TV news
The lives we lived lost in vain

I bought my ticket on a runaway train
Can't stand livin′, can′t stand pain
Be no flowers or sympathy, just a big red stain on the bedroom wall

Me and my baby's on a runaway train
Me and my baby′s on a runaway train

No more boring nights with the TV set on
No more screaming fights on the telephone
No more stinking lies, no more phony "I love you's"
′Cause I can't stand me and I can′t stand you

Runaway train, I can't stand the way you look when you look at me
Runaway train, I can't stand the sound of your voice when you talk to me
Runaway train, I can′t stand to feel your touch when you′re touching me

Don't mind dyin′ 'cause it′s hard and fast
A mass of twisted metal, broken bodies, broken glass
Broken engines, broken hearts, for throttle overdrive
Broken people all around, broken train, broken lives

Me and my baby's on a runaway train
Me and my baby′s on a runaway train, runaway

Runaway, runaway, runaway, run the fuckin' runaway train