I'm on a train called purgatory
And it's screaming down the rails
It's not a pretty story
But it's all I've got to tell
The conductor's name is Louie
He got a goatee and the tail
He punches my ticket, and he hands it back to me
And he says next stop is hell
Next stop is hell
I never saw no contract
I never signed no dody line
So can somebody tell me
Why I'm holding down this line
I'm rolling like a rocket
I'm running out of time
Only one heart that can stop it
The one that once loved mine
Only one heart that can stop it
Lord can you help me reach her
Cause no one else but she
Can throw the switch, and turn this train
Please send her back to me
Lucifer is laughing
The engine's blowing fire
Lord have mercy on my soul
This train is my funeral pyre
I guess I've been a dead man
Ever since that day
My true love said goodbye to me
And turned and walked away
The day I bought my ticket
I payed with the broken heart
I boarded the express to hell
You can't stop it once it starts
You can't stop it once it starts
I'm sitting at the window
And I'm praying all I've got
Before we reach the station lord
Please take your best shot
Please get me in your crosses
And fire off a round
And he raises my soul forever
Don't let Satan take me down
Don't let Satan take me down
I always thought this train
Was suppose to go uphill
Not down
Not down
But in this life I've learned
One thing
What I think doesn't count
It just don't count
I'm on a train called purgatory
And the next stop off is hell
It ain't a pretty story
But it's all I've got to tell
I'm on a train called purgatory
And the next stop off is hell
It ain't a pretty story
But it's all I've got to tell
It ain't a pretty story
But it's all I've got to tell
It ain't a pretty story