Runaway Train

Album: Grave Dancers Union (1992)
Charted: 7 5
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  • Lyrics currently unavailable Writer/s: David Pirner
    Publisher: BMG Rights Management, O/B/O DistroKid, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, TuneCore Inc., Warner Chappell Music, Inc.

Comments: 13

  • Nicole from TennesseeDoes anyone know if any of the missing people featured in the video have ever been found?
  • Nickster from Minneapolis, MnI really thought it was Tom Petty for a long time.
  • Danleichty from Rochester, MnMy dad and I saw them in concert. They are a great band.
  • Heather from White Bear Lake, Mni love this song! great tune
  • Rachael from Melbourne, AustraliaI loved this song when it first came out. It did take on new meaning for me though, when I watched the film clip years later and recognised the name and image of one of the victims of the backpacker killer in Australia. I believe the picture has since been removed from the clip, but it brought home to me that people may not just run away.
  • Kevin from Reading , PaThese guys actually did a decent cover of the Fleetwood Mac classic "Dreams," which sounded like a strange cover song for a 90s alternative band. Don't know too much else by this band, which I presume are long gone from the scene.
  • Sherrad from South Bend, InLove Love love this song. In times of my life, I have felt like that runaway train....just screwing up everything put in front of me.....
  • Bertrand from Paris, FranceSoul Asylum shot to the top of the ranks of alt-rock bands with this folkish classic. The video for "Runaway Train" was accompanied by advertisements about missing children serving a powerful public service. Many alt-rock fans abandoned Soul Asylum as having sold out to the mainstream, but pop fans pushed "Runaway Train" to #5 on the chart, and it became a well-deserved classic.
  • Allison from Dearborn, MiI love this song,as odd as it may seem it helps me when I feel upset. These lyrics are amazing, they can relate to everyone in someway.
  • Tom from Hershey, PaGreat song and GREAT BAND, please add more of their stuff to songfacts
  • Bryan from Spring, TxThis song was the jam back in eighth grade.
  • Eric from Vancouver, CanadaThis song actually first appeared on "Grave Dancers Union" in 1992
  • Patrick from Humboldt, Iavery good song
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