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Artist: The Adolescents
Canonical path: /adolescents/runaway
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Runaway
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Runaway
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Hello?
Is my daughter there?
She?s 15 years old
Blue eyes, blonde hair
She?s been away from home ?bout two or three day
To locate rikk agnew in california
Write a letter to me on a random chance of receiving some reply
You get one, suddenly it?s and insta-romance, but you?re a stranger in my eyes
Pull your rotting roots and proceed to bail on a journey guaranteed
Did ya? ever stop to think i could go to jail for your adolescent need?
Chorus:
Runaway, why don?t you stay
Back where you belong
Feel ya? gotta run, feel ya? gotta play
But you?re really much too young
I understand your impulsiveness
I?ve been there once before
But you?re so blind to the fucking mess
That your loved one?s can?t ignore
Calls from worried mom, detectives, and your aunt
I don?t really have the time
An innocent exchange of petty postal lust
Could turn into a nasty crime
So pull a u-y, louie, don?t come my way
There?s no place like home
No need to run, no reason to fly
But you still have to go, you still have to roam
Chorus
Chorus
I don?t know your reasons
I don?t know your rhymes
I don?t have the patience
And i don?t have the time
You make me see red
You make me feel black
Don?t ever get near me
Don?t ever come back
I know what you?re doing
It?s somewhere i?ve been
I?ve seen it all happen
Again & again
I'm gonna say it once
And i?ll make it clear
Go home! do ya? hear me?
Get the hell out of here!
Runaway, runaway, runaway...
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