{"id":32,"date":"2016-10-05T09:14:00","date_gmt":"2016-10-05T08:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/trevteasdellyrics\/2016\/10\/05\/runaway-train\/"},"modified":"2016-10-05T09:14:00","modified_gmt":"2016-10-05T08:14:00","slug":"runaway-train","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/trevteasdellyrics\/2016\/10\/05\/runaway-train\/","title":{"rendered":"Runaway Train"},"content":{"rendered":"
\nRUNAWAY TRAIN<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n
\n\u00a9Trev Teasdel Coventry March 1970<\/span><\/div>\n
\n
<\/span><\/div>\n
\nRunaway train \u2013 you ran away,<\/span><\/div>\n
\nYou left my heart an empty tray.<\/span><\/div>\n
\nNow I wander aimlessly,<\/span><\/div>\n
\nBut the station doesn\u2019t comfort me.<\/span><\/div>\n
\nSo I\u2019m singing poems to the flowers,<\/span><\/div>\n
\nTo pass away those empty hours.<\/span><\/div>\n
\nSinging poems to the sky hi higher, higher\u2026<\/span><\/div>\n
\n
<\/span><\/div>\n
\nRunaway plane \u2013 You took off,<\/span><\/div>\n
\nLeft my soul an empty trough.<\/span><\/div>\n
\nNow I wander hastelessly,<\/span><\/div>\n
\nBut the airport doesn\u2019t comfort me.<\/span><\/div>\n
\nSo I\u2019m singing poems to the flowers,<\/span><\/div>\n
\nTo pass away those empty hours.<\/span><\/div>\n
\nSinging poems to the sky hi higher, higher\u2026<\/span><\/div>\n
\n
<\/span><\/div>\n
\nRunaway rain you caused me pain.<\/span><\/div>\n
\nYou trickled down a pavement drain.<\/span><\/div>\n
\nLeft my thoughts in disharmony,<\/span><\/div>\n
\nBut the rain clouds do not comfort me.<\/span><\/div>\n
\nSo I\u2019m singing poems to the flowers,<\/span><\/div>\n
\nTo pass away those empty hours.<\/span><\/div>\n
\nHurling curses to the sky hi higher, higher\u2026<\/span><\/div>\n
\n
<\/span><\/div>\n
\nBRIDGE<\/span><\/div>\n
\nKicking fallen beech tree leaves<\/span><\/i><\/div>\n
\nAs my poem gently weaves<\/span><\/i><\/div>\n
\nIts way into an autumn breeze<\/span><\/i><\/div>\n
\nConvey my message please<\/span><\/i><\/div>\n
\nConvey my message please.<\/span><\/i><\/div>\n
\n
<\/span><\/div>\n
\nRunaway Jane \u2013 You disappeared,<\/span><\/div>\n
\nYou left my heart a cold deep fjord.<\/span><\/div>\n
\nNow I swim in solitude.<\/span><\/div>\n
\nMy fixings have come unscrewed.<\/span><\/div>\n
\nSo I whisper poems to her afar,<\/span><\/div>\n
\nShe left my heart ajar.<\/span><\/div>\n
\nWhisper poems to the sky hi higher higher\u2026etc..<\/span><\/div>\n
\n
<\/span><\/div>\n
\nRunaway ship \u2013 you sailed alone,<\/span><\/div>\n
\nYou left my heart a cobwebbed throne.<\/span><\/div>\n
\nI treated you so thoughtlessly.<\/span><\/div>\n
\nNow the harbour doesn\u2019t comfort me.<\/span><\/div>\n
\nSo I feed my poems to the flowers,<\/span><\/div>\n
\nTake me back to your sacred bower<\/span><\/div>\n
\n<\/div>\n
\nJust slinging poems to the sky hi higher, higher<\/span>
\n
<\/span>
\n….<\/span>
\nThe idea for the song came while studying at Coventry Technical College on a City and Guilds Electro-technology course. The lecturer, catching me writing lyrics during class, said “Trevor’s too busy writing poems to a flower to become an electrician<\/i>.” Poems to a flower<\/i> was from Donovan I think and he was right, I was no natural electrician. That was the careers officer’s choice not mine! Later in 1970, I used that idea to write this lyric.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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