Runaway Train Chords by Soul Asylum

[Intro]

| C   | C   | C   | C   |

[Verse 1]

C

Call you up in the middle of the night

Em/B

Like a firefly without a light

Am

You were there like a blowtorch burnin'

G

I was a key that could use a little turnin'

C

So tired that I couldn't even sleep

Em/B

So many secrets I couldn't keep

Am

Promised myself I wouldn't weep

G

One more promise I couldn't keep

[Pre-Chorus 1]

   F                G

It seems no one can help me now

    C                    Am

I'm in too deep, there's no way out

F                Em           G

This time I have really led myself astray

[Chorus 1]

C

Runaway train never going back

Em

Wrong way on a one-way track

Am

Seems like I should be getting somewhere

G

Somehow I'm neither here nor there

[Chorus 3]

G

Somehow I'm neither here nor there

C

Runaway train never coming back

Em

Runaway train tearing up the track

Am

Runaway train burning in my veins

G

I'd runaway but it always seems the same

[Outro]

| C   | C   | Em  | Em  | Am  | Am  | G   | G   |

(repeat and fade out)

[Verse 2]

C

Can you help me remember how to smile

Em/B

Make it somehow all seem worthwhile

Am

How on earth did I get so jaded

G

Life's mysteries seem so faded

C

I can go where no one else can go

Em/B

I know what no one else knows

Am

Here I am just drowning in the rain

G

With a ticket for a runaway train

[Pre-Chorus 2]

    F                G

And everything seems cut and dry

C              Am

Day and night, earth and sky

F         Em           G

Somehow I just don't believe it

[Chorus 2]

C

Runaway train never going back

Em

Wrong way on a one-way track

Am

Seems like I should be getting somewhere

G

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]

C

Bought a ticket for a runaway train

Em/B

Like a madman laughing at the rain

Am

Little out of touch, little insane

G

It's just easier than dealing with the pain