Ben Kweller Penny On The Train Track Lyrics

Penny On The Train Track Lyrics

I'm just a penny on the train track

Waitin' for my judgement day

Come on baby girl let me see those legs

Before I get flattened away



I wait

Yeah, I wait

For something good, for something
great



Stoppin' in somebody's old home town

Gotta get that
midnight meal

If you can't get behind your own life

Get behind the
driving wheel



And go, just go

Find a place that you don't
know



Ran into a friend just the other night

Got a badge,
he's a local cop

Haven't seen that boy in over seven years

Since
out of high school I dropped



I see, I see

All the things
that I should be



Oh baby dance with me!



Even lucky
man has a bad day

And pretty girl has a scar

After that train comes
and takes me away

Pick up that guitar



And play, just play

Play that rock and roll for me



He's in the yard just washin' his
car

Thinkin' 'bout his pretty wife

Makin' lemonade with the kitchen
aid

Makin' him a perfect life



And it's grim, so dim

When you wish that you were just like him



I'm just a penny on
the train track

Waitin' for my judgement day

Come on baby girl let
me see those legs

Before I get flattened away



I wait, I
wait

For something good, for something great



And I try, oh I
try

I can't stop, I don't know why