SOUL ASYLUM – RUNAWAY TRAIN

középfok
A 'Runaway Train' tette a Soul Asylum nevű minneapolisi bandát világhírűvé, 1994-ben a Grammy-díjat is nyert a dal. A szöveg kitűnő, hallgasd meg és olvasd el többször is!

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

CHORUS
Runaway train never going back
Wrong way on a one way track
Seems like I should be getting somewhere
Somehow I’m neither here no 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

Everything is cut and dry
Day and night, earth and sky
Somehow I just don’t believe it

CHORUS

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 comin’ back
Runaway train tearin’ up the track
Runaway train burnin’ in my veins
Runaway but it always seems the same


Vocabulary

asylum – menedék
firefly – szentjánosbogár
to lead sb astray – tévútra vezet
jaded – beleunt, megcsömörlött, kimerült
torch – fáklya

A dal jelentése:

This is a song about kids running away from home.There are two versions of the music video, one for the United Kingdom and one for the United States: The video for the United States begins with a fade to a black screen with big, white blocked text reading: “There are over one million youth lost on the streets of America”, whereas the UK version begins with “100,000 youth are lost on the streets of Britain”.