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Running Away

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lyrics

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i feel no warmth when the sun shines in
when it's reflecting, i feel darkness instead
i'm not ready to take this leap
it's not that this cliff appears too steep
but where i land i'll be met below
there will be no climbing back, this will become a home
i feel i'm taking this leap alone
because i didn't want to split at the fork in the road
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the night creatures leach off the trash of the workers
to decorate their tapestries they hang from their shoulders
they blend in with shadows of ambiguity
so they can contradict their rhetoric against conformity
they look down and frown upon the colors of this town
though they wouldn't know what to do if they burned it down
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despite this you want to stay
and i want to run away
we promised we'd meet half way
i know it's one we will break
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i cursed your name for living on an island
far away from responsibility
i'm struggling to continue to deny it
that i too want to live on island
i cursed your game for giving into the game
leaving behind everything you hate
i'm struggling to hold these words inside me
that i envy you completely
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i'm stuck in place, you won't change my mind
when you pull me forward, I'm staring behind
this inebriated backyard brings you to life
on sober nights i feel empty inside
your running in circles all the time
when you stop to breathe, you start to cry
in times i want to be light on my feet
you want to sit down and plant seeds
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there are trees already grown on roads we've yet to go
so let's go
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maybe we want the same things but reach them from different means
when we grow older and our vision is duller
will we recognize each other, will we scoff at one another
this town will go on, we'll have to move on
i'll pack my backs i swear i'll be gone
i hide that i don't have the same visions that you do
i don't know where i want to go
i don't know why i want to go, why do i have to leave
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from ↑​↓​↑​↓, released June 7, 2013
vibraphone by brian bo

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