Penny on the Train Track - Ben Kweller/Benjamin Kweller

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

Ya 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

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

I wait

Ya I wait

For something good

For something great

Ya I wait

Ya I wait

For something good

For something great

And I try

I try

I can't stop

I don't know why