[00:00.442]Runaway (Edit)-Devlin[00:01.352]Written by :Devlin[00:09.491]Listen yeah[00:10.597]A lifetime of dreaming visualising paradise[00:13.240]I woke up rolled over and told my girl we're leaving[00:15.986]It's time to sacrifice a lot[00:17.277]Cause you ain't happy with your job[00:18.744]And round here it's like nothin'seems appealing[00:21.185]So let me know you feel the same[00:22.570]Throw your life into a case and we'll depart from Victoria this evening[00:26.197]And then embark upon a path of rediscovery[00:28.600]Searching for the fruits from the lost garden of Eden[00:31.195]I'm wondering if I runaway and came back another day[00:33.752]Then would the young men who roll with metal put the guns away[00:36.417]And would the devil have took charge or would the slum be safe[00:38.934]I pray the latter's right for everybody's mumsy's sake[00:41.491]And if I dissappear for years and reappear[00:44.264]Would my natural intuition still be crystal clear[00:46.804]Or would I have lost clarity[00:48.667]In this trivial pursuit we're walking through so casually[00:51.144]I gotta leave I gotta go[00:53.256]There's nothing here for me no more[00:55.875]I gotta be free I gotta be[00:58.320]Somewhere that I can just be me[01:00.902]And I run run runaway run run runaway[01:07.32]Run run runaway I runaway[01:12.165]We share a last cigerette then walk into the station[01:14.598]Purchase two tickets to an alien destination[01:17.321]Board the train and witness pain on all the faces of multi-cultural races[01:20.849]But not me and my girl we're breaking free[01:22.423]Like an escapist cause we need to escape this[01:24.956]And I for one have got my mind made up[01:26.879]Even if where we stay is make-shift[01:28.846]I can't remain in this domain of semi-ape shit because all[01:31.283]I see is hatred[01:32.429]I wonder if I dissappeared how many men would miss me[01:34.742]Or would they all forget like I erased my name from history[01:37.464]I'm still trying yet to make a break[01:38.971]Within the chain of pain and misery[01:40.517]And vanish off the planet like a mystery[01:42.859]And if I did return and things were the same or worse[01:45.488]You'd see the gear stick shift and then the whip reverse and[01:48.79]I'd be straight back on my travels[01:50.151]Burning rubber over gravel 'til we see the English Channel[01:52.198]I gotta leave I gotta go[01:54.574]There's nothing here for me no more[01:57.107]I gotta be free I gotta be[01:59.497]Somewhere that I can just be me[02:02.194]And I run run runaway run run runaway[02:08.336]Run run runaway I runaway[02:14.392]As the carriage pulls away I pull my lady closer and[02:17.17]I tell her she's okay[02:18.301]'Cause if we never broke the barricades today[02:20.171]We'd always be afraid[02:21.408]And left to feel threatened in this dark and deadly maze[02:23.920]But now I've come of age and as the train[02:25.748]Starts enterin'suburbia a smile comes across my face[02:28.915]The unwinding of eternal rage that was locked up inside[02:31.927]Just like my mates behind prison gates[02:33.985]If I could runaway and come back another day[02:36.408]I'd let the song play on the summer's longest day[02:39.204]Kick back and just enjoy the raves with a lager and a spliff to blaze[02:44.95]If I ever contemplate returning to this crazy place[02:46.665]I'd leave it long enough so they don't recognise my face[02:49.224]I'd let the song play on the summer's longest day[02:51.793]While I roll upon the roads along the motorway[02:53.513]I gotta leave I gotta go[02:55.736]There's nothing here for me no more[02:58.416]I gotta be free I gotta be[03:00.868]Somewhere that I can just be me[03:03.488]And I run run runaway run run runaway[03:09.607]Run run runaway I runaway