How I Wrote… “Runaway Train”

songs I’ve written, this one sure has legs,” singer-guitarist Dave Pirner says about “Runaway Train,” the 1992 lush rock ballad that briefly turned his cult-favorite alternative punk band, Soul Asylum, into multi-Platinum stars. “It’s hard to understand why one song out of hundreds that I’ve written still gets played on the radio so much,” he says. “But to a lot of people, it’s a special song, so it’s not for me