| Riding the night train, New York, to LA
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| Gonna go and get me some sunshine
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| Clipping along t’ward the Colorado Rockies
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| Leaving you behind me
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| There’s a cold icy wind blowing like a demon
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| Off Lake Michigan
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| I’m going where the weather is warm and the heat off
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| You burned me out and you did me in
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| You beat me at the game
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| I can not win
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| I’m going where the pace is slower
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| The stakes are lower
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| I’m running for my life
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| Tomorrow I’ll wake up without you
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| I’ll curl my hair, and listen to my heart
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| I don’t want to hear a word about you
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| I’ll do what I care to do
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| I’ll do what I dare to do
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| I’m running for my life
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| I can see the switch man out in the freight yard
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| Waving his lights at my train
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| Red fir stopping my heart from beating
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| Green for driving me insane
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| And the rain is pouring
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| And the wheels are rolling past that Nevada line
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| I’m going where the weather is hot
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| And you are not
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| I played the fool I believed your lies
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| I danced till I was nearly paralyzed
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| I’m gone and going
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| I’m running for my life
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| Tomorrow I’ll wake up without you
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| I’ll get a room with windows on the sea
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| I’ll do all the things I could never do
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| You never will find me here
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| Not a thing to remind me here
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| I’m running for my life
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| Sky’s getting bright with California sunrise
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| Shining its light on my train
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| Drying my tears soothing my fears
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| Taking away my old pain
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| And the engine’s rockin' and the wheels are talkin'
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| About the tracks ahead
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| I’m going where the world is new and the past is dead
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| You brought me low and you got me high
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| I’m leaving you with my bridges burning
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| There’s no returning
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| I’m running for my life
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| I’m running for me life |