Waiting for the last train
Standing in the pouring rain
Thinking, wishing, hoping
that you'll never feel the same again

Lying wide awake at night
Sleeping in the morning light
Doing all these things although
I shouldn't be ashamed of them

You can't stop my heart from turning inside out
Try and stop my world from turning inside out

Clutching on the last straw
Seeing things I've never saw
Must be time I fell
Down to a place I didn't know too well

Waiting for the last train
Standing in the pouring rain
Although I'm starting to break this spell
I know I haven't got a hope in Hell

You can't stop my heart from turning inside out
Try and stop my world from turning inside out

When you've called it a day
You've had things your own way
I guess it's fair to say
I'm gonna make you pay

(Didn't get a chance
Wished inside
Holding on until you draw the line
One step forward
Two steps back
And you're gone, gone)

Waiting for the last train
Standing in the pouring rain
Lying wide awake at night
Sleeping in the morning light

You can't stop my heart from turning inside out
Just try and stop my world from turning inside out

You can't stop my heart from turning inside out
Try and stop my world from turning inside out




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    General Comment

    No one has commented? C'mon?! This song is amazing. It's about being in love and losing them, but holding on cause you're heart can't stop itself....

    SpaceMonkeyEmon October 18, 2009   Link
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    No one has commented? C'mon?! This song is amazing. It's about being in love and losing them, but holding on cause your heart can't stop itself....

    SpaceMonkeyEmon October 18, 2009   Link
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    I'll comment, dammit! This was a great song when it came out, and it holds up. I've been searching for the lyrics now for a while, and I'm happy to see them here, finally.

    Thermidoron April 10, 2010   Link
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    Great song with great energy. He lost the one he loves, something that never happened to him before. It turned him inside out,

    80s4meon October 28, 2021   Link

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