Unlike Avantasia's first set of Albums ( The Metal Opera and The Metal Opera II) The Wicked Trilogy (The Scarecrow, The Wicked Symphony and Angel of Babylon) are not a direct story. They are intentionally left open and vague. The booklet from Wicked Symphony states:
"It's a tragedy about getting caught between two worlds. Here are the good intentions, visions, the dream of creating something divine and pure that is meant to result in love. And there you've got the demons that go along with the acclaim and approval that all of us vain and proud creatures mistakenly might call love sometimes...The scarecrow is you, the scarecrow is me..."
I think this song is part of that- If you look at the albums together with "Scarecrow" telling the actual story, while the second two tell the characters emotional journey I think Runaway train is about what is dubbed "the scarecrow" deciding to turn away from the woman who he loved and who ultimately rejected him in search of other forms of fulfillment beyond the love of a single woman.
Unlike Avantasia's first set of Albums ( The Metal Opera and The Metal Opera II) The Wicked Trilogy (The Scarecrow, The Wicked Symphony and Angel of Babylon) are not a direct story. They are intentionally left open and vague. The booklet from Wicked Symphony states:
"It's a tragedy about getting caught between two worlds. Here are the good intentions, visions, the dream of creating something divine and pure that is meant to result in love. And there you've got the demons that go along with the acclaim and approval that all of us vain and proud creatures mistakenly might call love sometimes...The scarecrow is you, the scarecrow is me..."
I think this song is part of that- If you look at the albums together with "Scarecrow" telling the actual story, while the second two tell the characters emotional journey I think Runaway train is about what is dubbed "the scarecrow" deciding to turn away from the woman who he loved and who ultimately rejected him in search of other forms of fulfillment beyond the love of a single woman.