Bob Seger

Released: November 17, 2017

Songwriter: Bob Seger Craig Frost Tim Mitchell

Producer: Bob Seger

[Verse 1]
Sometimes I stumble—sometimes I fall
The angels of my nature won't accept last call
I stop thinking—I just react
Before I know it everything turns black
I'm on a highway doin' ninety—utterly juiced
Out of control and impossibly loose
Uncomprehending—without a clue
I don't know where I'm goin', I don't know what I'm gonna do

[Chorus]
I'm like a runaway train
Screamin' through the back ten
Roarin' through the rain
Like a runaway train

[Verse 2]
Maybe it's a full moon—maybe high tide
The fear of dying young that makes me take that ride
I start up slowly—building up steam
Before I know it all's illusion, it's like I'm in a dream
No rhyme, no reason—nothin' makes sense
No future, no past, only present tense
I'm out there floating—completely alone
In a universe of chaos indifferent as a stone

[Chorus]
Like a runaway train
Racin' to the void
Roarin' through the rain
Like a runaway train

[Bridge]
I can't explain the unexplainable
Where's the electron gonna be next?
Do we really die for love and glory
Or only for wealth and sex?
Is there a reason why I'm on this road?
Is it random or ordained?
Is everyone in the world dead tonight?
Am I the only one that's sane?

[Verse 3]
We approach the speed of light—we approach infinite mass
We can't cross over or the future becomes the past
It's nice to know there's limits—nice to know there's walls
But when you're on a bender you don't care about that at all
There's only movin' forward—pickin' up speed
Movement feels like freedom, sometimes that's all you need
There's the wind in your hair—the cold on your brow
Nothin' else matters—you're alive right now

[Chorus]
Like a runaway train
Ragin' through the dark night
Roarin' 'gainst the grain
Like a runaway train

[Outro]
Oh, runaway train
Oh, like a train
Runaway train
Runaway train
Runaway train
Runaway train

Robert Clark “Bob” Seger (born May 6, 1945) is an American singer-songwriter, guitarist and pianist. As a locally successful Detroit-area artist, he performed and recorded as Bob Seger and the Last Heard and Bob Seger System throughout the 1960s. By the early 1970s, he had dropped the “System” from his recordings and continued to strive for broader success with various other bands. In 1973, he put together the Silver Bullet Band, with a group of Detroit-area musicians, with whom he became most successful on the national level with the album Live Bullet, recorded live with the Silver Bullet Band in 1975 at Cobo Hall in Detroit, Michigan. On his studio albums, he also worked extensively with the Alabama-based Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section, which appeared on several of Seger’s best-selling singles and albums.

In 1976, he achieved a national breakout with the studio album Night Moves. The Night Moves title track became his first Billboard Top 5 single and the album started a string six consecutive albums landing in the Billbaord Top 10. The 1980 album, Against the Wind, topped the charts.

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