(feat. Yasmin)
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[Verse 1: Devlin]
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A lifetime of dreaming, visualising paradise
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I woke and rolled over and told my girl we're leaving
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It's time to sacrifice a lot
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Cause you ain't happy with your job
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And round here it's like nothin' seems appealing
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So let me know you feel the same
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Throw your life into a case and walk the path from Victoria this evening
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And then embark upon a path of rediscovery
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Searching for the fruits from the lost garden of Eden
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I'm wondering if I runaway and came back another day,
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Then would the young men who roll with metal put the guns away
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And would the devil have took charge or would the slum be safe
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I pray the latter's right for everybody's mumsy's sake.
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And if I dissappear for years and reappear
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Would my natural intuition still be crystal clear?
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Or would I have lost clarity?
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In this trivial pursuit we're walking through so casually
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[Chorus: Yasmin]
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I gotta leave, I gotta go,
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There's nothing here for me no more
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I gotta be free, I gotta be
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Somewhere that I can just be me.
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And I run run runaway, run run runaway,
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Run run runaway, I runaway.
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[Verse 2: Devlin]
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We share a last cigerette, then walk into the station
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Purchase two tickets to an alien destination
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Board the train and witness pain on all the faces of multi-cultural races
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But not me and my girl we're breaking free
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Like an escapist, cause we need to escape this
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And I for one have got my mind made up,
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Even if where we stay is make-shift
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I can't remain in this domain of semi ape shit, because all I see is hatred
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I wonder if I dissappeared how many men would miss me
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Or would they all forget like I erased my name from history?
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I'm still trying yet to make a break within the chain of pain and misery
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And vanish off the planet like a mystery.
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And if I did return would things be the same or worse?
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You see the gear stick shift and then the whip reverse and I'd be straight back on my travels
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Burning rubber over gravel 'til we see the English Channel
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[Chorus]
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[Verse 3: Devlin]
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As the carriage pulls away, I pull my lady closer and I tell her she's okay
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'Cause if we never broke the barricades today we'd always be afraid
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And left to feel threatened in this dark and deadly maze
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But now I've come of age, and as the train starts enterin' suburbia a smile comes across my face
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The unwinding of eternal rage, that was locked up inside just like my mates behind prison gates
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If I could runaway and come back another day,
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I'd let the song play, on the summer's longest day.
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Kick back and just enjoy the raves, with a lager and a spliff to blaze.
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If I ever contemplate returning to this crazy place
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I'd leave it long enough so they don't recognise my face
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I'd let the song play, on the summer's longest day
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While I roll upon the roads along the motorway
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[Chorus]
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Runaway
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| Devlin |
