Locomotive Breath

In the shuffling madness

Of the locomotive breath

Runs the all-time loser

Headlong to his death

He feels the piston scraping

Steam breaking on his brow

Old Charlie stole the handle

And the train, it won't stop going

No, it won't slow down, oh-oh

He sees his children jumping off

At the stations - one by one

His woman and his best friend

In bed and having fun

He's crawling down the corridor

On his hands and knees

Old Charlie stole the handle

And the train, it won't stop going

No, it won't slow down, hey-hey

He hears the silence howling

Catches angels as they fall

And the all-time winner

Has got him by the balls

Oh, he picks up Gideon's Bible

Open at page one

I said, "God, he stole the handle

And the train, it won't stop goin'

No, it won't slow down"

No, it won't slow down

No, it won't slow down

No, it won't slow down

No, it won't slow down

No, it won't slow down