Runaway Train

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+: Blow note
−: Draw note
b or ': Half-step bend
bb or '': Two half-step bend
bbb or ''': Three half-step bend
(###): Chord — relevant hole numbers in parentheses
< or *: Push the button in (chromatic harmonica)

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Soul Asylum - Runaway Train

 7    7   7  7  7   7  7  5  5   -44
Call you up in the middle of the night
 7   7  7  7   7   5   5 -4 4
Like a firefly without a light
 7   7    7     7   7  7    5    -4 5
You were there like a slow torch burning
7  7  7  7   7    -8    8 -8 -8 7  7   -6 6
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

-7  7     7 7   7    -7  7   7 
It seems no one can help me now
 7  -7  7   7    
I'm in too deep
 7      8  -8  7-7 
There's no way out
-7     7  7   7   -7 7  6   -6 -6   6 6
This time I have really led myself astray


CHORUS
 7 7 7    7   7  7  5  5   -4 
Runaway train never going back
  7   7   7  7  7   6   -5 5
Wrong way on a one way track
  7   7    7   7    7  7    5    -4 5
Seems like I should be getting somewhere
7  7   7    7 -8 8-8-87  7   -6 6
Somehow I'm neither here nor 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


8 -8 -87 7    7  7   5 5   -4 
Runaway train never comin' back
 7 7 7    7     7 7   6   6  -5 5   
Runaway train tearin' up the track
 7 7 7    7   7  7    5   5  -4 5   
Runaway train burnin' in my veins
 7 7 7   7  -8  8 -8   -8    7  -6 6 
Runaway but it always seems the same 

8 -8 -87  7    8 -8  -8 7  7 -8
Runaway train never comin' back
8 -8 -87  7    8 -8   -8  7   7 
Runaway train tearin' up the track
8 -8 -87  7    8 -8  -8  7  7 -8    
Runaway train burnin' in my veins
 7 7 7   7  -8  8 -8   -8    7  -6 6 
Runaway but it always seems the same

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