Cyndi Lauper

Songwriter: Cyndi Lauper Ellie Greenwich Jeff Kent

Producer: Rick Chertoff

The train was leaving at 10 after 10
I got to the station just in time to check in
I've been luggin' my bags all around
I'm trying hard to never knock people down
But I see I left a few on the ground
And as the train pulls away
I can hear the conductor say

Right track wrong train (Right track wrong train)
Right track wrong train (Right track wrong train)
I'm not to blame (Not to blame)
Right track wrong train... train

I read my schedule but my train wasn't there
They read my ticket, it said going nowhere
Everybody had the same tatooed face
All the women and men just dressed in lace
Oh I gotta get out of this place
Should got off before
The engineer locked the door

Right track wrong train (Right track wrong train)
Right track wrong train (Right track wrong train)
I'm not to blame (Not to blame)
Right track wrong train, train, train, train, hey!

"Hey that's a neat tatoo you're
Wearing. By the way where'd you get it?
Uh, huh. Say is this an express train?
Uh, huh
Snack bar? Uh, huh. Uh, huh"

Something is happening so familiar to me
Is this the Outer Limits like on TV?
Another empty town fading to gray
Another open home sign on the way
Have a cup of coffee, have a nice day (Hey!)
And as the train pushes off
We're headed for Babylon

Oh no...

Right track, wrong train, woah (Right track wrong train)
Right track wrong train (Right track wrong train)
Right track wrong train (Right track wrong train)
Right track wrong train

On the wrong train
On the right track
We don't know if she'll ever come back

What train is this?
Something is happening so familiar to me
Is this the Outer Limits like on TV?
Have a cup of coffee, have a nice day, hey!
Right track...

An 80’s pop starlet that skyrocketed her way to the top of the mainstream game, Cyndi Lauper has made her mark as an artist both socially and musically.

Beginning her solo career in the 1983 with hit debut album She’s So Unusual, Lauper came to be a household name with the four top-five hits that came with the record, including breakthrough single “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun” and the visceral, chart-topping “Time After Time”. Her camp attitude, electrifying vocals, and unrelenting earworms made an impression on the general public, and she would take home Best New Artist and Best Album Package at the Grammy’s for She’s So Unusual, amidst 4 other nominations. Lauper would never reach the same sort of stardom again musically following She’s So Unusual, but her legacy was far from over.

She’s So Unusual set the ground for her next True Colors. Released in 1986, the album most notably contained title-track “True Colors”, which would grow to become a primary anthem of the gay rights movement. Lauper would later serve as a key advocate of the LGBT community, and she has fairly consistently addressed homophobia throughout her career.

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