I'll be waitin' at the station for you To pick me up and take me away But I'll be gone when you arrive I'll contemplate and change my mind 'Cause I just cannot live that way I saw those railroad cars were ridin' Movin' forever down their path They've all forgotten words behind them But I could not leave my past behind ♪ And Caroline has back to backs Sittin' by them railroad tracks But I don't think she's asked herself why 'Cause all those years of holding back Feelings that she's always had To run away and leave her man behind She saw those railroad cars were ridin' Movin' forever down their tracks They've all forgotten words behind them But I saw that she changed her mind ♪ She could not leave her man behind I tried to run away from love But somethin' stopped me, I don't know what It was about that train that took me home I said, "So long" to that railroad "Goodbye," that's all she wrote I'm goin' home for to see my Caroline I saw those railroad cars were ridin' Movin' forever down their tracks They've all forgotten words behind them But I could not leave Oh, I could not leave Oh, I could not leave My past behind