you watch the slow train moving through the city late at night adjusting back and forth against the darkness and street lights I know that you're feeling bad but I'm glad you didn't lie easy to get caught up...but you know you can always you can always you can always walk away the life is the red wagon rolling along the life is the red wagon simple and strong the life is the red...is the red... oh, it's no big deal but when the feet are draggin' you pull me and I pull for you you pull me and I pull for you past the teeming marketplace and the blur of faces there past the silent dockyards and the darkness looming there maybe it won't work this time but that's the risk you take (and you want to take it) and just as long as it feels right doesn't matter just as long as... doesn't matter ...gotta feel good even though you don't know why the life is the red wagon rolling along the life is the red wagon simple and strong the life is the red...is the red... oh, it's no big deal but when the feet are draggin' you pull me and i pull for you you pull me and i pull for you the life is the red wagon simple and strong.