Grab your bags and turn the lights out
Get your boots on, that train ain’t waiting on you
Your little gold-digger ain’t gonna find you now,
Ain’t gonna find you now
Went and found a new life, cast aside your old strife
You’re never gonna go back home
Left behind your old friends, you’re looking through a new lens
You’re never gonna go back home
That engine rolls, you’re finally on your way
Conductor comes, you give him your ticket
Out the window now, the trees roll by,
You never feel so high
All the times you thought you knew yourself
You realized that you were someone else
And all those other lives you almost lead
They’re gonna be waiting on you
Went and found a new life, cast aside your old strife
You’re never gonna go back home
Another year goes by, another lifetime,
Another afternoon upon the rail lines
You can’t abide by noone’s law
Nobody’s laws but yours
Went and found a new life, cast aside your old strife
You’re never gonna go back home
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