[00:00.00]Runaway - Devlin [00:03.39]Oh yeah [00:05.83]Oh yeah [00:09.98]Oh [00:10.30]Listen yeah [00:11.62]A lifetime of dreaming visualising paradise [00:14.12]I woke up rolled over and told my girl we're leaving [00:17.06]It's time to sacrifice a lot [00:18.47]Cause you ain't happy with your job [00:19.79]And round here it's like nothing seems appealing [00:22.24]So let me know you feel the same [00:23.74]Throw your life into a case and we'll depart from Victoria this evening [00:27.41]And then embark upon a path of rediscovery [00:29.61]Searching for the fruits from the lost garden of Eden [00:32.20]I'm wondering if I runaway and came back another day [00:34.78]Then would the young men who roll with metal put the guns away [00:37.58]And would the devil have took charge or would the slum be safe [00:40.04]I pray the latter's right for everybody's mumsy's sake [00:42.62]And if I disappear for years and reappear [00:45.15]Would my natural intuition still be crystal clear [00:47.98]Or would I have lost clarity [00:49.89]In this trivial pursuit we're walking through so casually [00:51.70]I gotta leave I gotta go [00:54.00]There's nothing here for me no more [00:56.55]I gotta be free I gotta be [00:59.17]Somewhere that I can just be me [01:01.97]And I run run runaway run run runaway [01:07.90]Run run runaway I runaway [01:13.08]We share a last cigarette then walk into the station [01:15.61]Purchase two tickets to an alien destination [01:18.21]Board the train and witness pain on all the faces of multi cultural races [01:21.99]But not me and my girl we're breaking free [01:23.68]Like an escapist cause we need to escape this [01:26.04]And I for one have got my mind made up [01:27.97]Even if where we stay is make shift [01:29.97]I can't remain in this domain of semi ape shit [01:32.08]Because all I see is hatred [01:33.60]I wonder if I disappeared how many men would miss me [01:36.08]Or would they all forget like I erased my name from history [01:38.58]I'm still trying yet to make a break within the chain of pain and misery [01:41.64]And vanish off the planet like a mystery [01:43.82]And if I did return and things were the same or worse [01:46.55]You'd see the gear stick shift and then the whip reverse [01:49.05]And I'd be straight back on my travels [01:51.21]Burning rubber over gravel 'til we see the English channel [01:53.27]I gotta leave I gotta go [01:55.25]There's nothing here for me no more [01:57.81]I gotta be free I gotta be [02:00.44]Somewhere that I can just be me [02:03.14]And I run run runaway run run runaway [02:09.19]Run run runaway I runaway [02:15.34]As the carriage pulls away I pull my lady closer [02:17.78]And I tell her she's okay [02:19.36]Cause if we never broke the barricades today we'd always be afraid [02:22.43]And left to feel threatened in this dark and deadly maze [02:24.99]But now I've come of age [02:25.95]And as the train starts entering suburbia a smile comes across my face [02:29.88]The unwinding of eternal rage that was locked up inside [02:32.94]Just like my mates behind prison gates [02:34.96]If I could runaway and come back another day [02:37.41]I'd let the song play on the summer's longest day [02:40.22]Kick back and just enjoy the raves with a lager and a spliff to blaze [02:45.10]If I ever contemplate returning to this crazy place [02:47.76]I'd leave it long enough so they don't recognise my face [02:50.26]I'd let the song play on the summer's longest day [02:52.82]While I roll upon the roads along the motorway [02:54.40]I gotta leave I gotta go [02:56.49]There's nothing here for me no more [02:59.12]I gotta be free I gotta be [03:01.61]Somewhere that I can just be me [03:04.41]And I run run runaway run run runaway [03:10.56]Run run runaway I runaway [03:23.96]I runaway