Runaways

Album: Battle Born (2012)
Charted: 18 78
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  • Blonde hair blowin' in the summer wind
    A blue-eyed girl playing in the sand
    I'd been on a trail for a little while
    But that was the night that she broke down and held my hand
    The teenage rush, she said, 'maybe I'll just runaway, we got time'
    Well that ain't much...
    We can't wait 'til tomorrow
    You gotta know that this is real, baby why you wanna fight it?
    It's the one thing you can choose, oh!

    We got engaged on a Friday night
    I swore on the head of our unborn child that I could take care of the three of us
    But I got the tendency to slip when the nights get wild.
    It's in my blood
    She says she might just runaway somewhere else, some place good
    We can't wait 'til tomorrow
    You gotta know that this is real, baby why you wanna fight it?
    It's the one thing you can choose

    Let's take a chance baby we can't lose
    And we're all just runaways
    I knew that when I met you, I'm not gonna let you runaway
    I knew that when I held you, I wasn't lettin' go

    We used to look at the stars and confess our dreams
    Hold each other to the morning light
    We used to laugh, now we only fight
    Baby are you lonesome now?

    At night I come home after they go to sleep
    Like a stumbling ghost, I haunt these halls
    There's a picture of us on our wedding day
    I recognize the girl but I can't settle in these walls

    We can't wait 'til tomorrow
    No we're caught up in the appeal, baby why you wanna hide it?
    It's the last thing on my mind
    (Why you wanna hide it?)
    I turn the engine over and my body just comes alive and we all just runaway
    I knew that when I met you, I'm not gonna let you runaway
    I knew that when I held you, I wasn't lettin go, no no no!
    (No no no!)
    (And we're all just runaways)
    Yeah runaway
    (And we're all just runaways)
    Yeah Writer/s: Brandon Flowers, Dave Brent Keuning, Mark August Stoermer, Ronnie Jr. Vannucci
    Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 1

  • John Dw Fielding from New England, North DakotaTo me, Runaways tells an epic struggle and tragic tail of the struggle to hold on to a relationship where there is a feeling of duty without an unwavering commitment. It’s a raw, real, and tragic tail of personal demons and struggles affecting a young family that has know definite ending….I believe that it CB is the Killer’s finest work.
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