Oh no, here we go again

It's time to spend the last lucky dollar

Can't you see it now: sleeping on the train 

And singing that sad refrain 

Oh.. You could have been a contender 

By the look in their eyes 

You can see that they despise you 

But you know it doesn't much really matter 

Because there's the train, there's the track 

Don't say goodbye and don't look back 

Because if you do 

You know that you're going to shatter 

 

You never took me where I wanted to go 

You never told me what I wanted to know 

You couldn't see what I was trying to show 

It must have been some strange reaction 

And you split me when I started to crack 

And you forgot me when I went off the track 

And you just put another knife in my back 

It must have been some strange reaction 

 

Must be some strange reaction of a chemical kind 

When all your problems develop complications 

Can't get to sleep when all the people on the street 

Are just like insects crawling on a carcass 

 

You were crawling when I wanted to fly 

You were laughing when I wanted to cry 

And where were you when when I wanted to die? 

It must have been some strange reaction 

I was cursing when you tried to pray 

To an idol with feet of clay 

You had a party but nobody came 

It must have been some strange reaction 

 

I don't know, I don't know, I don't know 

It must have been some strange reaction.