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