Runaway Train

Born like everyone with a slate as clean
Baby grew into a boy and started building steam
Boy learned how to blow it off in a dangerous kind of way
Wait up fellas, here he comes, that runaway train

Now I hear his lonesome cry barrelin' down the track
Out of control, his soul dressed in black
Sound to every man that's broken the chain
Like rollin', rollin', rollin' like a runaway train

It ain't easy to do your best when life comes at you fast
On his own so early, oh too young for such a task
Took the bull by the horn, sometimes that bull was mean
And only at it stoking on that runaway train

Now I hear his lonesome cry barrelin' down the track
Out of control, his soul dressed in black
Sound to every man that's broken the chain
Like rollin', rollin', rollin' like a runaway train

Married young, a daddy soon, his life was right on track
Something rumbled in his soul, something that he lacked
He had to chase that melody that fueled a childhood dream
There ain't no holding back that runaway train

Now I hear his lonesome cry barrelin' down the track
Out of control his soul dressed in black
Sound to every man that's broken the chain
Like rollin', rollin', rollin' like a runaway train

Like rollin', rollin', rollin' like a runaway train
I hear that train a-coming
Hey Porter
Oh Porter
Yeah, I don't care if I do-da-do