Runaway Train - Soul Asylum

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Intro:

          
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  //      2x

Alternative way to play this intro.

C     C add f  C pull off to d  C. Pretty much the same as above only strike the f and d 
instead of just using them as part of the chord.

             
Call you up in

              
 the mid-dle o

             
f the night.
            
Like a fire-fl

              
y with-out a l

     
ight.
            
You were there

              
 like a blow-t

              
orch burning.

I was a key th

at could use a

 lit-tle turn-

ing.

             
So tired that 

              
I couldn't ev-

         
en sleep.
            
So many secret

              
s I couldn't k

     
eep.
            
Promised my-se

              
lf, I wouldn't

      
 weep.

One more promi

se, I couldn't

 keep

             
It seems no on

      
e can help me 

now.
             
I'm in too dee

           
p, there's no 

way out.
             
This time I ha
              
Chorus

   
ve real-ly led
              

 my-self a-str
              

ay.  E--------
     B-10-8-10

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-8-10-8-10/12-

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Run-a-way trai

              
n nev-er going

       
 back.
            
Wrong way on a

              
 one way track

   
.
            
Seems like I s

              
hould be get-t

              
ing some-where

  
.
G             
Some-how I'm n
              
              

              
either here no
              
              

           G /
r there.      
              
              

///    Bass fo
       A------
       E-3-3--
       1st cho

r guitar.
--2--3--|
5-------|
rus only.

             
Can you help m

              
e re-mem-ber h

             
ow to smile?
            
Make it some-h

              
ow all seem wo

             
rth-while.
            
How on earth d

              
id I get so ja

       
d-ed?

Life's mys-ter

y seems so fad

-ed.
             
I can go where

              
 no one else c

       
an go.
            
I know what no

              
 one else know

    
s.
            
Here I am just

              
-a drown-in'in

          
 the rain.

With a tic-ket

 for a run-a-w

ay train, and
             
Ev-er-y-thing 

      
seems cut and 

dry.
             
Day and night,

 
 earth and sky

.
             
Some-how I,   

            
   just don't 

   
be-lieve.

Chorus 2

Lead solo.

             
E--8-8-8--8-10
B-------------
G-------------
D-------------
A-------------
E-------------

            
-8-8-8-8--8-7-
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-12-7--7-8-10-
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8p7-8h10p8-7--
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E-------------
B--10--10-10--
G-------------
D-------------
A-------------
E-------------

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10-12-10-10--1
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--------------

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0-12--12-10--1
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----|
0---|
----|
----|
----|
----|

  
E-------------
B--8-8-8--8-10
G-------------
D-------------
A-------------
E-------------

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-8-8--8-10-10-
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--------------

--------|
-12-12--|
--------|
--------|
--------|
--------|

             
E--8--8-8-8---
B-------------
G-------------
D-------------
A-------------
E-------------

          
-10-8-10------
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8-----8-8-8-10
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-----|
-----|
-----|
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-----|

            
E-------------
B--10--10-10--
G-------------
D-------------
A-------------
E-------------

           
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--8-8-8-------
----------9--7
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-8-10-8---10-8
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-10-8-10-8-10/
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12----|
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Barre all chords in the solo above.

Play chord once at the beginning of the next 4 verses
until *than on line four.


  Bought a tic

-ket for a run

-a-way train.

  Like a mad-m

an laugh-in'at

 the rain.

  Lit-tle out 

of touch, lit-

le in-sane.
            
 Just easier *

than deal-ing 

with the pain.

Chorus 3 to end verses below.

             
Run-a-way trai

              
n, nev-er com-

           
in' back.
            
Run-a-way trai

              
n, tear---in' 

              
up the track.
            
Run-a-way trai

              
n, burn-in' in

             
 my veins.
             
Run-a-way, but

              
 it al-ways se

             
ems the same.

                                   2x

Listen to the song for the way these chords are played. There are a
lot of notes "picked" out of these chords. Add on and pull off, don't
just strum them. Play the lead solo again over this and fade.
The lead solo is pretty easy(or appears to be) with nothing fancy.

      
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