runaway train

Sencillo de la efímera banda de rock alternativo Soul Asylum, formada en la década de los 90. Con esta canción, cuyo clip sirvió para reunir a varios niños perdidos con sus familias, consiguieron también el Grammy en 1992. Está incluído en el disco doble platino "Grave Dancer Union".


Runaway train / Soul Asylum

La mezcla de energía punk, ritmos de jazz y tintes de country, además de sólidas composiciones les sirvieron para ganarse el reconocimiento de la mejor banda en vivo de América.
En 1998, ya desaparecido Karl Mueller (voz y bajo) publican Candy from stranger, LP que devolvía al grupo al panorama musical.


Soul Asylum - Runaway train (live)

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

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

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

And everything seems cut and dry
Day and night, earth and sky
Somehow 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

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 going back
Wrong way on a one way track
Seems like I should be getting somewhere
Somehow I’m neither here nor there

Runaway train never comin’ back
Runaway train tearin’ up the track
Runaway train burnin’ in my veins
Runaway but it always seems the same