Twenty-Five to Midnight - Sting

Train I ride, don't be slow

If your whistle can blow

Fifteen miles down the track

Tell them I'm coming back

Counting poles, counting sheep

Don't be slow, I won't weep

If your wheels on the line

Were to put me on time

Just a year to the day

Since I went upon my way

To seek my fortune and fame

Be a star, change my name

And that's it more or less

'Til this midnight express

I know I can't be late

'Cause she said, she won't wait

She'll just go marry Jack

So there's no turning back

And it's twenty-five to midnight

And fifteen miles of track

Band I had got a break

Just one chance we had to take

Told my girl I'd be back

Left her with my friend Jack

New York City for a spell

Things didn't turn out so well

Every dive that we played

We were lucky we got paid

Mr. Train driver, please

If your speed you increase

Every cent I have now

Will be yours this I vow

And that's it more or less

'Til this midnight express

I know I can't be late

'Cause she said, she won't wait

She'll just go marry Jack

So there's no turning back

And it's twenty-five to midnight

And fifteen miles of track

We called ourselves The Latino Lovers

Hawaiian shirts and top forty covers

I didn't think I could sink this low

When drugs and booze ate all my dough

This isn't how it was meant to be

There's no such thing as a meal that's free

If I was ever to get out alive

I have to get home on time

Train I ride, don't be slow

If your whistle can blow

Fifteen miles down the track

Tell them I'm coming back

And that's it more or less

'Til this midnight express

I know I can't be late

'Cause she said, she won't wait

She'll just go marry Jack

So there's no turning back

And it's twenty-five to midnight

And fifteen miles of track

And it's twenty-five to midnight

And fifteen miles of track