Lyrics Locomotive Breath - 1971 US Single DJ Edit - Jethro Tull

In the shuffling madness
Of the locomotive breath
Runs the all-time loser
Headlong to his death
Oh, he feels the piston scraping
Steam breaking on his brow

Old Charlie stole the handle
And the train, it won't stop going
No way to slow down, oh-oh

He sees his children jumping off
At stations, one by one
His woman and his best friend
In bed and having fun
Oh, he's crawling down the corridor
On his hands and knees

Old Charlie stole the handle
And the train, it won't stop going
No way to slow down, heh
Hey-hey, ah

He hears the silence howling
Catches angels as they fall
And the all-time winner
Has got him by the -
Oh, he picks up Gideon's Bible
Open at page one

I said, "God, he stole the handle
And the train, it won't stop goin'
No way to slow down", ah
No way to slow down
No way to slow down
No way to slow down, ah
No way to slow down, hoo
No way to slow down
No way to slow down