"Runaway Train" is a 1993 song by Soul Asylum and is the third single from their sixth studio album Grave Dancers Union. It went to number 1 in Canada and Lithuania, number 2 in New Zealand, Norway, Sweden and Switzerland, number 3 in Austria and the Netherlands, number 4 in Denmark, number 5 in the United States, number 6 in Iceland and Ireland, number 7 in United Kingdom, number 8 in Belgium, number 11 in Australia and Finland and number 16 in France. It won a Grammy Award in 1994. The song deals with children who have gone missing.