Beating like a hammer Help I'm alive My heart keeps beating like a hammer They're gonna eat me alive Hard to be soft Tough to be tender Come take my pulse the pace is on a runaway train If you're still alive My regrets are few

So many roads, so many trains to ride I was standin' by my window, when I heard that whistle blow It was a mean ol' fireman and a cruel ol' engineer I've got to find my baby, 'fore I'll be satisfied You know I thought it was a Streamline, but it was a B

Stack stack, stack stack, oh oh I'd do it all again (oh) Speed speed, speed speed oh oh We were high and we were sober We were under, we were over We were young and now I'm older But I'd do it all again Getting drunk on a train track Way back, when we

You know I hobo'd, hobo'd, hobo'd, hobo'd Hobo'd a long, long way from home, oh Lord When I first thought to hobo'in, hobo'in I took a freight train to be my friend, oh Lord You know my mother, she followed me that mornin', me that mornin', that mornin'

Because the train is coming to carry you home Come dance with me Come on and dance into the light Everybody dance into the light Come on and dance into the light Now we're here, there's no turning back We have one voice

Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh But words, they won't do it justice I got something on my mind I could write it on a sign I need a translator at the tip of my tongue There's a freight train of emotion stuck in my lungs

And the wills of the river Leads you here Where the wind it is yielding And the light it is clear To rest upon forever Or to live for one more day No I won't restrain the morning I'll get ready for this spring Oh see them planets shining

Tryin' to stop your leavin' Train's a comin', river's runnin' Got a guitar on my back And I'm standin' on this lonesome railroad track Train's a-comin' It'll be here 'fore too long But I don't think I can stop it with a song Girl, that's the kind of way

Into the wild How are we living living living No oh oh oh Somebody left the gate open You know we got lost on the way Come save us a runaway train Gone insane How do we how do we oh

Everything's gone, everything's gone, everything's gone I'm trying to pull myself away I'm caught in a pattern and I can't escape Trying to pull myself away Breaking up in the station, a final train I don't even know if I'll ever see you again Is it a