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Haddanuff 
RUNAWAY TRAIN
Soul Asylum
Call you up in the middle of the night
Like a firefly without a light
You were there like a slow torch burning
I was a key that could use a little turning
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
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 no there
Can you help me remember how to smile
Make it somehow all seem worthwhile
How on earth did I get so jaded
Life's mystery seems so faded
I can go where no one else can go
I know what no one else knows
Here I am just drownin' in the rain
With a ticket for a runaway train
Everything is cut and dry
Day and night, earth and sky
Somehow I just don't believe it
CHORUS
Bought a ticket for a runaway train
Like a madman laughin' at the rain
Little out of touch, little insane
Just easier than dealing with the pain
Runaway train never comin' back
Runaway train tearin' up the track
Runaway train burnin' in my veins
Runaway but it always seems the same
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Fifteen years ago after my first breakdown I used music to get rid of the white noise in my head. I'd walk around day and night with that trusty little Walkman, headphones plastered to my ears. Nestled in amongst my long, lost favorites from yesteryear was this little gem which I listened to time and time again.
Runaway Train.
Yes, I was that person or that person was me. Who wrote that song? What's it about? Addictions? Runaways? I frequently marveled that the only person in the entire world who knew me the best was a total stranger. How could that be? How could I be so completely misunderstood by my family and friends....the very people that I grew up with?
I yearned for understanding, comprehension, enlightenment. What was happening to me? I used to be so disciplined, so together. Why was I falling apart?
That was then. This is now.
And the song is just as much alive today as it was over a decade ago. I want to tell the lyricist who wrote it that I love them....that I understand. I hope they know.
Comments
I read this poem (song) and I can taste the old flavor of the narcotics in the back of my throat....... uggghhh.
I`m so grateful, today, to be free of that insanity......to be off of that runaway train.
I ask myself..... Is this about the problem? or about the solution? For me, I think it's more about the problem........ might not be a good place for me to spend a lot of time or focus.
eastwester
That song does seem to describe the addiction experience extremely well!
The great thing is.....you can get off that train and this song will not be YOU anymore. It will be about the way you USED TO BE....
So just for today, do not gamble. Riding the recovery train will take you to better places...where you find healing, joy...and especially...yourself....your best self....that has been pushed down by addiction.
You've got plenty of company on this new train....welcome aboard!
DianneE