Ryan Adams was on Colbert last night, and he gave a powerful performance of his broken-hearted song Outbound Train off of this year’s revitalized, critically-acclaimed Prisoner album (notably, his most-highly rated album on Metacritic). Watch the performance below (lyrics at bottom).

After giving a rousing show last August at the Santa Barbara Bowl, Adams will return to Santa Barbara to play the Granada Theater on June 1st. You can still get tickets HERE.  Go there.

Outbound Train:

“How am I supposed to know
When it’s time to go
In the middle of the night
When I’m all alone
Don’t know what to do
Don’t know what I’m even supposed to say
Like a train gonna go
Well it’s not a-rolling yet

The cars don’t move in the middle of the night
Lost inside the void of the fading tail lights
I swear I wasn’t lonely when I met you, girl

But I was so bored, I was so bored
I don’t know anything anymore

I got this achin’ in my chest
Rollin’ around like a pile of bones
In a broken little box
It sounds a lot like you
Laughing to yourself
In a quiet room
Our eyes knowing more than they probably ought to