Dear God I'd like if you'd bargain, But your trade show's closed Now i'm running from everything I've ever known I've got nothing of value, But this pain's so cold So i'll keep riding this train, But please don't take me home Please don't take me home Dear God I'd like if you'd bargain, But your trade show's closed Now i'm running from everything I've ever known I've got nothing of value, But this pain's so cold So i'll keep riding this train, But please don't take me home Please don't take me home My world changed on that midnight train, 5 miles north of the Chicago exchange I tried to write this before you were gone, But my penmanship was never quit as strong as you were A man in plaid, stronger than the cancer within, Taught me how to be a man with a reason to live Dear God I'd like if you'd bargain, But your trade show's closed Now i'm running from everything I've ever known I've got nothing of value, But this pain's so cold So i'll keep riding this train, But please don't take me home Please don't take me home