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Verse 1

Caught the midnight whistle down the Birmingham line

Smoke in the mirror, bourbon on my mind

Boss man smiling with his crocodile grin

Selling cheap salvation just to cash me in

Verse 2

I was born in the backroom, raised on rust and rain

Learned every hard lesson riding someone else’s train

Now the wheels keep turning but the tracks don’t feel the same

Everybody’s dancing just to ride that gravy train

Pre-Chorus

You can fake the fire

You can wear the gold

But the truth comes crawling out

When the night gets cold

Chorus

Ohhh, ride that gravy train

Straight through the pouring rain

Everybody screaming my name again

But I still feel the chains

Yeah, ride that gravy train

Burning fuel and counting pain

You can take the money, take the fame

But you can’t outrun the blame

Verse 3

Lady in a red dress said “boy you’ve gone too far”

I laughed and lit a cigarette beside the hotel bar

Every town’s a memory fading neon blue

Every song I ever wrote still comes back to you

Guitar Solo

Bridge

I hear the engine crying

Steel against the wheel

All the things they promised me

Never sounded real

One more mile behind me

One more debt unpaid

Another ghost beside me

In the smoke I made

Final Chorus

Ohhh, ride that gravy train

Running hard through the flame

Crowd still shouting like nothing changed

While I drown in the game

Yeah, ride that gravy train

Till there’s nothing left to save

When the lights go down and the silence came

I’ll still curse that gravy train

Outro

Guitar solo