The last thing on your lips were mine
And the last thing in my arms was you running blind
So you can see, how it might have caught me, a little off guard
That some 3 a.m. train left for Denver in the rain
With you and my heart

CHORUS:
And I just can't take a train
I just can't take the whistle or the wheels
That lonely sound, running out, on cold rails of steel
I just can't take the leavin', or you not looking back
And to this day, I just can't take a train

There's something 'bout those stations late at night
The way that silver arrow cuts a dawn horizon,
just like a knife it reminds me of you and that night we broke through the
ice
Colorado all aboard and you rolled out like a storm
Without goodbye

REPEAT CHORUS

You could've woke me up and said I'm sorry
But this is how it's got to be
'Cause a one rail nowhere
Is such a lonely way to leave
I just can't take the leavin', or you not even looking back
And to this day, I just can't take a train
Oh, to this day, I just can't take a train.