Tom Petty - Runaway Train Chords & Tabs

Intro: E D C (use bar chords for the intro switch to major chords for the verse and chorus)

C
Call you up in the middle of the night,
C/A
like a fire flower FAR OF light,
Am
you were there like a blow torch burnin',
G
I was a key that could use a little turnin'
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C
So tired that I couldn't even sleep,
C/A
so many secrets I couldn't keep,
Am
I promised myself I wouldn't weep,
G
one more promise I couldn't keep

F                    G
It seems no one can help me now,
C                      Am
I'm in too deep theres no way out,
F                       Em         G
this time I have really led myself a-stray

C
Runaway train never goin' back,
C/A
wrong way on a one way track
Am
seems like I should be getting somewhere,
G
somehow I'm neither here nor there