The second hand is spinning.
Feels like time's slipping, dripping, through our fingers.
We're moving and we're shaking.
Blessed ties we're breaking, racing to the future.
Will we ever take the time to look back?
Will we ever realize we're not on the right track?
We're running out of control,
selling our souls for a ticket on a runaway train.
No matter how far we go,
we're moving farther from home,
bound for Babel on a runaway train.
Coals are in the fire,
All of our desire, we're rolling higher, building a tower.
This is human nature,
To believe the fable, we're able to match our maker.
Maybe somewhere down the line we'll look back
And maybe then we'll realize we're not on the right track.
We're running out of control,
selling our souls for a ticket on a runaway train.
No matter how far we go,
we're moving farther from home,
bound for Babel on a runaway train.
We're in a deadly human race, conducting our own destiny,
Trying to make it on our own.
Only God's unchanging grace can pull us off this crazy train.
Before it all crashes down we've got to turn it around.
Run for cover from this runaway train.
Feels like time's slipping, dripping, through our fingers.
We're moving and we're shaking.
Blessed ties we're breaking, racing to the future.
Will we ever take the time to look back?
Will we ever realize we're not on the right track?
We're running out of control,
selling our souls for a ticket on a runaway train.
No matter how far we go,
we're moving farther from home,
bound for Babel on a runaway train.
Coals are in the fire,
All of our desire, we're rolling higher, building a tower.
This is human nature,
To believe the fable, we're able to match our maker.
Maybe somewhere down the line we'll look back
And maybe then we'll realize we're not on the right track.
We're running out of control,
selling our souls for a ticket on a runaway train.
No matter how far we go,
we're moving farther from home,
bound for Babel on a runaway train.
We're in a deadly human race, conducting our own destiny,
Trying to make it on our own.
Only God's unchanging grace can pull us off this crazy train.
Before it all crashes down we've got to turn it around.
Run for cover from this runaway train.