Running for My Life - Judy Collins

Riding the night train, New York, to LA

Gonna go and get me some sunshine

Clipping along t’ward the Colorado Rockies

Leaving you behind me

There’s a cold icy wind blowing like a demon

Off Lake Michigan

I’m going where the weather is warm and the heat off

You burned me out and you did me in

You beat me at the game

I can not win

I’m going where the pace is slower

The stakes are lower

I’m running for my life

Tomorrow I’ll wake up without you

I’ll curl my hair, and listen to my heart

I don’t want to hear a word about you

I’ll do what I care to do

I’ll do what I dare to do

I’m running for my life

I can see the switch man out in the freight yard

Waving his lights at my train

Red fir stopping my heart from beating

Green for driving me insane

And the rain is pouring

And the wheels are rolling past that Nevada line

I’m going where the weather is hot

And you are not

I played the fool I believed your lies

I danced till I was nearly paralyzed

I’m gone and going

I’m running for my life

Tomorrow I’ll wake up without you

I’ll get a room with windows on the sea

I’ll do all the things I could never do

You never will find me here

Not a thing to remind me here

I’m running for my life

Sky’s getting bright with California sunrise

Shining its light on my train

Drying my tears soothing my fears

Taking away my old pain

And the engine’s rockin' and the wheels are talkin'

About the tracks ahead

I’m going where the world is new and the past is dead

You brought me low and you got me high

I’m leaving you with my bridges burning

There’s no returning

I’m running for my life

I’m running for me life