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A Runaway Train Lyrics
Announcer: All aboard. Watch your step people. Last call for the nightmare express hahahaha
I found myself slipping away
Just this side of dead
I woke up in a box car
I wasn't in my bed
I found my leg chained to a spike
That ran down through the floor
Attached to thirteen angry men
All rotten to the core
But I'm innocent I cried right out
I'm in someone else's dream
They looked around and laughed out loud
Said "Brother, so are we"
"Yeah brother, so are we"
But I'm a big celebrity
Known all round the land
"Well buddy you ain't no one here
Man, you ain't in demand"
Speeding t'wards a flaming wall
Like a screaming sonic boom
I really gotta wake up now
Or I may meet my doom oh lord,
I may meet my doom
So all that I remember
Is how much my body hurt
Now I'm sleeping in the graveyard
On the wrong side of the dirt
Yeah I'm on the wrong side of the dirt
Wrong side of the dirt, don`t you know
I'm on the wrong side of the dirt
Just this side of dead
I woke up in a box car
I wasn't in my bed
I found my leg chained to a spike
That ran down through the floor
Attached to thirteen angry men
All rotten to the core
But I'm innocent I cried right out
I'm in someone else's dream
They looked around and laughed out loud
Said "Brother, so are we"
"Yeah brother, so are we"
Known all round the land
"Well buddy you ain't no one here
Man, you ain't in demand"
Speeding t'wards a flaming wall
Like a screaming sonic boom
I really gotta wake up now
Or I may meet my doom oh lord,
I may meet my doom
Is how much my body hurt
Now I'm sleeping in the graveyard
On the wrong side of the dirt
Yeah I'm on the wrong side of the dirt
Wrong side of the dirt, don`t you know
I'm on the wrong side of the dirt
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Is just me or this sounds a little like Bob Dylan? Listen when Alice sings "I'm in someone else's dream"
Anyway, this is a key moment in "Welcome 2 My Nightmare".
In the previous song ("The Nightmare Returns") Steven fallen asleep, despite his effort to stay awake ("Caffeine"), when he woke up he was kidnapped ("I woke up in a box car / I wasn't in my bed") but he thinks it's part of a new nightmare ("I'm in someone else's dream").
Why Steven was kidnapped? Maybe because he is someone famous ("But I'm a big celebrity / Known all 'round the land") but the kidnappers seems to doesn't care about it (Well buddy, you ain't no one here / Man, you ain't in demand")
Anyway, Steven is going to die cuz he is in a high-speed vehicle, the "runaway train" , although he thinks it's only a nightmare (Speedin' towards a flamin' wall / like a screamin' sonic boom / I really gotta wake up now / Or I may meet my doom"). I was thinking that the "runaway train" was a car, but how Steven and "thirteen angry men" could be together in any car? Clowns kidnapped him?
In the end, he died, and it hurt a lot ("So all that I remember / Is how much my body hurt"). Also, now that Steven is "dead" he knows that something bad awaits for him (Now I'm sleepin' in the graveyard / On the wrong side of the dirt").
Oh, there is also another important point about this song. When Steven dies he still thinks that it's only a nightmare and that he is not really dead, only sleeping (You can check this statement in "I Gotta Get Outta Here").