49 Tons

If there were seventeen cars out in my back yard, The boys in blue were calling my name, Semi-automatics up on the rooftop, They just wanted to talk to me, I'd tell them what they wanted to hear, The only thing that I knew. Forty-nine tons of diesel locomotive Couldn't drag me back to you. Everywhere you go, there's a train wreck, baby, Everywhere you go, there's a runaway train, Breaking my heart like a bottleneck, baby, Sliding up and down and pulling its strings. Everywhere you go, everybody knows, You're looking for someone to do. Forty-nine tons of diesel locomotive Couldn't drag me back to you. If I was a brakeman, if I was a switchman, If I was an engineer, I'd take that train on down the line And clear on out of here. If I was the man swinging the lantern, I'd swing it 'til it was blue. Forty-nine tons of diesel locomotive Couldn't drag me back to you.