Runnin

Got 'em runnin got 'em stunnin'
Got 'em dreamin' got em jumpin'
Up and down and in the corner
Shouting "iko wayo!"

Are they steaming? Are they staring?
Will they kick it to the border?
Are we making mounds from mountains?
Look who's thinking oh no!

'bout the truth about the daring
If we're making a new hoarder
If we're solving every riddle
With a skull and crossed bones

If we're cryin' or we're laughing
If we put the two together
If it's never been a question of whether we should
Take an engine down the county line
A fume or two will keep it runnin fine and
Well-uh, well-uh that's a mighty fine fella
At the front, eyes straight and nobody can tell-uh that

Choke the furnace 'cause soon they'll find
This conductor is runnin blind
Yeah he's fillin' up the pails and uh
Clearing off the rails and uh
Conjurin' a prayer that the brakes ain't gonna fail and

Hold on tight
Hold on for dear life
Oh the feeding and the biting of the locusts (roller coaster baby)
We perspire, hope and wish and wonder (teach me to feel shame again)
Are we too late to atone? (bowl me over baby never be the same again)

While avoiding and employing (hold me closer baby show me)
Every method from the liars and the gluttons (how to feel again give)
Found by Dante and the new inferno (me closure baby)
(Make it all too real again)

Wire walking while they're talking (keep composure baby)
When you see a holy choir and (tell me what you see again)
Another preacher promise gonna take us all home
(full exposure baby can you take me as I am)

And then finding bless-ed timing
And its started up the hurt (hurt!)
We want the hurt (hurt!)
Bring on the hurt (hurt!)
Before the healing comes

Like the first time that your face met pavement
Like the first time you felt what the pain meant
Feel the hesitation course through your veins
The procrastination as the blood drains
Take an engine down the county line
A fume or two will keep it runnin fine and
Well-uh, well-uh that's a mighty fine fella
At the front, eyes straight and nobody can tell-uh that

Choke the furnace 'cause soon they'll find
The conductor is runnin blind
Yeah he's fillin' up the pails and uh
Clearing off the rails and uh
Conjurin' a prayer that the brakes ain't gonna fail and

Hold on tight
Hold on for dear life
Mercy me let the waves wash over (wash over)
Wash away, wash away
Let every tear combine

Mercy me let the waves wash over (wash over)
Wash away, wash away
The pain left in your eyes

Mercy me let the waves wash over (wash over)
Wash away, wash away
Let every tear combine

Mercy me let the waves wash over (wash over)
Wash away, wash away
The pain left in your eyes

Mercy me wash over
Runnin' runnin'
Hold on
We're comin' now

Mercy me wash over
Runnin' runnin'
Hold on
We're comin' now

Mercy me wash over
Runnin' runnin'
Hold on
We're comin' now

Mercy me wash over
Runnin' runnin'
Hold on
We're comin' now

Wash away wash away (mercy me)
Why should I wait? (wash over)

Wash away wash away (mercy me)
Why should I wait? (wash over)
For an engine down the county line
A fume or two will keep it runnin fine and
Well-uh, well-uh that's a mighty fine fella
At the front, eyes straight and nobody can tell-uh that

Choke the furnace and soon they'll find
The conductor is runnin blind
Yeah he's fillin' up the pails and uh
Clearing off the rails and uh
Conjurin' a prayer that the brakes ain't gonna fail and

Sure enough it would be a crime
To do it all on the comp'ny dime
Yeah we'll push it to the edge
Until we push it the ledge and then
Maybe only maybe we can find a way to hedge our duty

Hold on tight
Hold on for dear life