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Artist: Marillion
Canonical path: /marillion/runaway
Related lyric paths: 6
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Runaway
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Runaway
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Did you cry when they dragged you home
Put a lock on the door and the telephone
Was a runaway girl all they could see?...
Have the nights and the days that you've come through
Made the right seem wrong and the false seem true
And was a runaway girl all they could see...
A teenage extra from the satellite TV
Runaway girl
Too bad Too bad
Runaway girl
Too wild Too wild
Were they deaf to the prayer behind your lies
Maybe they didn't care to ask you why
Was a runaway girl all they choose to see
All they were prepared to admit to
Runaway girl
Too bad Too bad
Runaway girl
Real wild child
So you cower in the towns forgotten places
And make your bed with unfamiliar faces
And at last you've got your freedom but that's all you've got
You're tryin' to make up your mind up if you're better off
You pretend to wait for washing in some laundromat
But you're damned if you'll give them the satisfaction of you going
back
You'd freeze before you'd share a roof with them
And you'd starve before you'd let him get his hands on you again
Did you cry when they dragged you home?
Poor little runaway
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