Runaway train running down the track,
Runaway train can’t look back,
Locomotion’s got a notion for perpetual motion,
You just might blow your stack, Jack
This ain’t no jive it’s just the facts,
Don’t get slack on that track, Jack.

Well, your mind is humming like a hive on fire,
Flying higher than a flyer at the end of his wire,
Got no patience with the nations, running straight through the stations,
Everyone’s taken aback, Jack.
You’re not running on fuel, you’re running on lack,
On that out of whack, track.

Two trains running and not one goes my way (2x),
They’re too slow to get me where I want to go anyway.

Runaway train is coming through,
Runaway train has to make it new,
Gonna take it, gonna shake it, gonna fake it, undertake it,
There’s just so much to do, Lou,
When you get to the station at the end of the track,
You might not make it back, Jack.