A song about broken promises and losing control, told through the image of a runaway train on a one-way track. The narrator is exhausted, can't keep secrets, and feels trapped between light and darkness, sliding toward despair with no way to stop.
Chapters
Call you up in the middle of the night, like a firefly without a light. You were there like a blowtorch burning, 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 would keep. I'm sorry. One more promise that I couldn't keep. It seems no one can help me now. Come in too deep, there's nowhere out. This time I have really led myself astray. 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. Everything seems cut and dry. Day and night, earth and sky. Somehow I just, I just don't believe it. 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. Madman laughing at the rain. Need a lighter, touch the wheel, he's saying. Just easier than dealing with the pain. Runaway train, never coming back. Wrong way on a one-way track. Seems like I should be getting somewhere. Somehow I'm never getting over it. Runaway train, never coming back. Runaway train, tearing up the track. Runaway train, never coming back. Run away, try and burn it in my veins. Run away, but it always seems the same.
