“Why are you in despair, O my soul?” (Psalm 45:5).
“Runaway Train” is the title of a music video by a group called “Soul Asylum.” In the lyric, a runaway teenager laments the mess she has gotten into, saying,
Runaway train never goin’ back
Wrong way on a one-way track
Seems like I should be getting somewhere
Somehow I’m neither here nor there
It seems no one can help me now, I’m in too deep.
There’s now way out.
This time I have really led myself astray.
During the course of the video, images of actual runaway girls and boys (missing persons) flash on the screen.
When it came time for the annual MTV Video Music Awards, “Runaway Train” had already run on MTV for about six months. During that time, a runaway daughter ’s mom, while watching and hoping, had seen her own daughter ’s picture in the video. At the same time, the runaway daughter was watching and…
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