Runaway Train

Album: The One (1992)
Charted: 31
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  • There's a hungry road I can only hope's
    Gonna eat me up inside
    There's a drifting spirit coming clean
    In the eye of a lifelong fire
    Tell Monday I'll be around next week
    I'm running ahead of my days
    In the shotgun chance that scattered us
    I've seen the error of my ways

    Well we've wrapped ourselves in golden crowns
    Like sun gods spitting rain
    Found a way home written on this map
    Like red dye in my veins
    In the hardest times that come around
    The fear of losing grows
    I've lost and seen the world shut down
    It's a darkness no one knows

    And I've poured out the pleasure and dealt with the pain
    Standing in a station waiting in the rain
    I'm starting to feel a little muscle again
    But love is lost like a runaway train
    Oh I'm out of control and out of my hands
    I'm tearing like a demon through no man's land
    Trying to get a grip on my life again
    Nothing hits harder than a runaway train Writer/s: BERNARD J.P. TAUPIN, BERNIE TAUPIN, ELTON JOHN
    Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
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Comments: 2

  • Mamie from Cleveland, OhIt was also played during the closing credits of That is when I first heard the song. AND I HAD TO FIND IT. :) As for the style of how the song is sung verses first then chorus. I have found that his later song are all done that way. verses first then chorus. He mentioned that BERNY changed the way he writes songs. I guess that is what he meant by that comment.
  • Paul from Marysville, WaWhat makes this so remarkable is that all the verses are sung before the chorus makes its first appearance.

    And once the first chorus is sung, they never sing another verse; the rest of song is just the chorus intermixed with guitar and organ solos.
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