Red Streamliner Lyrics

-- music by Bill Payne
-- lyrics by Bill Payne and Fran Tate 

Red streamliner rollin' 
rollin' down the track the things you see 
With your wheels in motion through desert, mountain, ocean 
I hear you every night, is it a dream? 
  
Red streamliner rollin' down, comin' down on me 
Red streamliner rollin', rollin' long so free 
Your past keeps comin' back on me 
To far and near, away from here 
  
Where people move a mile a minute 
This hurricane livin' with you and me in it 
Long into the night, that whistle offers light 
  
Red streamliner rollin' 
I wish you'd tell me 'bout the things you see 
I'm lookin', lookin' down the tracks you ride 
Knowin' that they're your only guide 
I see them every night, is it a dream? 
And when the sidewalks roll up at night 
Just as stations pass by 
  
Once the leader of the wild, wild west 
Hurricane livin' been a lifelong song 
Now you're cast of steel and cast aside 
Broken dreams maybe, but you haven't died