The Wrong Train 
Verse 
Dm, C Bb F 
Chorus 
Bb F 
(Last time) 
Bb F  C 
(that wasn't what was wrong) 
Bb F C Dm  

End on 
Dm 

You howled like a wolf  
You howled like a child  
You howled like a ghost from the grave  
I came to your closet door,  
you were in there on the floor  
I said "open up" and you said “go away!" 

And you howled, and you howled  
You howled all night long 
I pretended not to hear you  
I didn't know what was wrong!  

When the next day came, well,  
you were on your way  
You didn't take much,  
just a couple of things  
And you didn't leave a note,  
but I knew you had to go  
You had to go and try to find anything.  
I just wished and I’d hoped you'd be OK  
I just wished and I’d hoped you'd be OK  
And I knew that you would be back here again one day.  

I got a call from the hospital  
They said you broke your arm hopping off a train  
You hadn't made it very far before you ran into bad luck  
So I borrowed a car, I came and picked you up  
I brought you home, I brought you home 
I brought you home, I brought you home 
With bruises on your face, that cast on your arm, 
and a cut across your nose.  
You said "let me explain, I was on the wrong train 
It was heading the wrong way so I jumped off" 
And I said "that's insane,  
you could have died out there that day  
Why wouldn't you just wait until it stopped?" 

And you howled, and you howled  
Out in that cold field where you lay. 
You said "what could I do,  
I was on the wrong train"  
So you made it to your feet,  
You walked along those barren trees  
You followed power lines until you found the road.  
And the first car that came by,  
they saw you and they stopped  
It was a rabbit hunter and his friend the cop. 

And they dropped you off outside the hospital  
They gave you pills for the pain,  
they put that cast on your arm  
But the howling never stops! 
Because that wasn't what was wrong, 
No that wasn't what was wrong, 
No that wasn't what was wrong with you at all.