Runaway Train Driver

Timothy Smith

Rattling down the track on iron wheels,
This is not an exercise, it's for real
I'm up here in the rushing wind, way down there
This town is just a traffic jam,
You can't walk the streets or breathe the air

I'm a runaway train driver
I'm a runaway train driver
I'm a runaway train driver,
Heading off the rails

Thundering through the night with the moon in my eyes,
Out into the daybreak and the new sunrise
All I found was loneliness in the crush of the crowd,
But I'm bound for freedom now,
I've got power and speed, I'm never slowing down

I'm a runaway train driver
I'm a runaway train driver
I'm a runaway train driver,
Heading off the rails

I am no ordinary vandal, oh no
Hanging on to the dead man's handle
And I'm never going to let go,
Never going to let go
Never going to let go

This is not the green train
This is not the green train
This is not the green train

I'm pulling this cargo up and over the top
It's a loaded son of a gun with the hammer cocked
Slow-moving son of a bomb, soon it's going to roll
It's too late to evacuate,
It wouldn't do any good
Where could you go

From a runaway train driver
From a runaway train driver
I'm a runaway train driver
Heading off the rails
This is not the green train

This is not the green train
This is not the green train
This is not the green train

Trivia about the song Runaway Train Driver by Die Toten Hosen

On which albums was the song “Runaway Train Driver” released by Die Toten Hosen?
Die Toten Hosen released the song on the albums “Crash Landing” in 1999, “Nur zu Besuch - Single” in 2002, “Nur Zu Besuch : Unplugged im Wiener Burgtheat” in 2005, and “Learning English: The Learner’s Workbook: Grammar and Drill” in 2021.
Who composed the song “Runaway Train Driver” by Die Toten Hosen?
The song “Runaway Train Driver” by Die Toten Hosen was composed by Timothy Smith.

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