Lyrics
If I had the guts I'd go right now
Leave and not say sorry I couldn't make it
But I don't have the guts
And so I'm riding on this train
Riding on this train
Riding on this train
I'm riding on this train all day, all day
Just when you think it couldn't get worse
Well, it can always get a little worse
Now I think I've seen it all, I really do
And so I'm riding on this train
Riding on this train
Riding on this train
I'm riding on this train all day, all day
You know I never get anywhere
Just go back and forth
I'm a freak at the station, and I don't know why
I have nothing in common with any other human being
And I used to know something but it wasn't real
Now I know nothing and you know how that feels
I just wanna go, I just wanna go
I'm ready to go, I'm all packed and ready to go
But I don't have the guts to
Last night I felt my soul reaching through my shoulders out
It wants out, it wants out of this earthly hell
And I know you can make it into something
I know you and you do it so well
But I'm lost and I've always been
I'm giving up hope, I don't know how to
People look at me cross-eyed and I know I've really lost my mind
Everyone's a little too kind, a little too blind, a little too—
See, rhyming's a terrible symptom of true madness
I'm gonna make myself a tinfoil hat
Keep the currents from driving me batty
If I had the guts, if I had the guts, if I had them I'd be gone, I'd be gone
I'd be sailing through the heavens, through the rain
And I imagine there'd be this lifting of my spirit
Erasing of this pain, and I'd go, “oh, this is it”
I'm ready to go, I'm ready to go, I'm ready to go, I'm ready to go
I'm riding on this train, mmm
Riding on this train
Riding on this train all day…
Written by: Lori Carson