Whether a regular sinner, or considered a saint
Or live in between temptation and restraint
Only you know what you are and what you ain’t
This ride through life can be like a runaway train

It’ll travel faster with every passin’ year?
There’s no brake to pull so you gotta learn to steer
?It’ll test your faith to arrive on time not late?
This ride through life can be like a runaway train??

The speed of life makes it all a short ride?
And the ticket’s only good one-way, one-time?
You’re judged by how you live not how you explain?
The ride you take through life on the runaway train

Every scar and mark just proves that you’re alive?
As a testament to your power to survive?
Cause at the start that end looks further away ?
This ride through life can be like a runaway train ??

The speed of life makes it all a short ride?
And the ticket’s only good one-way, one-time?
You’re judged by how you live not how you explain?
The ride you take through life on the runaway train

What I’ve learned about this ride - from travelers come and gone
? Is no matter how you live it - the train will still roll on

The speed of life makes it all a short ride?
And the ticket’s only good one-way, one-time?
You’re judged by how you live not how you explain?
The ride you take through life on the runaway train

At this age I know what I am and I ain’t
That’s how you get this far through life on the runaway train