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Chords6
Tab4
Bass3
Chords in this song6
Intro
| C | C | C | C |
Verse 1
Call you up in the middle of the night
Like a firefly without a light
You were there like a blowtorch 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
Pre-Chorus
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
Verse 2
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
Pre-Chorus
And everything seems cut and dry
Day and night, earth and sky
Somehow I just don't believe it
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
Instrumental
| C | C | Em | Em | Am | Am | G | G |
| F | G | C | Am |
| F | Em | G | G |
Verse 3
Bought a ticket for a runaway train
Like a madman laughing at the rain
Little out of touch, little insane
It's just easier than dealing with the pain
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
Runaway train never coming back
Runaway train tearing up the track
Runaway train burning in my veins
I'd runaway but it always seems the same
Outro
| C | C | Em | Em | Am | Am | G | G |
(repeat and fade out)
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