The Runner Lyrics

He was living his life in a fog

Oblivion's welcoming arms

His view of society marred

No perception of forces at large

Quite the misfit and always on guard

In his mind rang a silent alarm

And so lays the ground of a future that waits

When you feel like you ain't where you are

Out of control his compulsion to flee

Absent of value as best he could see

As from within so without unto thee

Knew he'd strike out on his own eventually

And so it would be

Patience no virtue amid certainty

Fortune unknown but determinedly

On the day when he had turned twenty three

He decided to leave

He was gone

The freedom was like an addiction he soared on a glorious high

Living to him was a mission devoid of objective in mind

He'd move at the drop of a dime with no thinking or questioning why

Never developed attachment to things all would get left behind

This was the method that patterned his ways

Perpetual motion without any reins

No repercussions, no piper to pay

No obligation to come into play

Nothing to weigh

No one to sway

No inhibition or stress to allay

"No benefit to the bonded" he'd say

"So die on the morrow but live for this day"

Lone as the wolf strays he remained one in kind

A habit of force made as he wade far and wide

Now onwards and upwards, no grind

If you don't seek you can't find

Devil-may-care, well no devil compared

He was onto one hell of a ride

He was gone

Then runner

The runner

The runner

The runner

Brick by brick, stone by stone

Block by block, home by home

Bridge by bridge, zone by zone

Piece by piece, forged his own path

Years come and gone

Sites come upon

Miles drifted on

Wounds licked and gnawed

Fate hemmed and hawed

Yet this single flaw

Fulfillment he never saw

Running from guilt and from sorrow disguised and from things insecurity hides

Running from doubt and the pressure to cope with no semblance of hope on the rise

Running from heartbreak and love

Running from who he had failed to become

Running from fear he soon came to realize

He was left all alone with but words of the wise

And so on the day when our passage entwined

Now long in the tooth at the end of his line

He said "friend, go yonder, but bear this in mind

In this world, know one truth: you can't run from time"