Music Video: Devlin - Runaway ft. Yasmin

Lyrics to Runaway by Devlin ft. Yasmin

I'm wondering if I runaway & came back another day,
then would the young men who roll with metal put the guns away.
& would the devil have took charge or would the slum be safe.
I pray the latter's right for everybody's mumsy's sake.
& if I dissappear for years & reappear, would my natural intuition still be crystal clear?
Or would I have lost clarity? In this trivial pursuit we're walking through so casually


CHORUS (Yasmin)
I gotta leave, I gotta go, there's nothing here for me no more.
I gotta be free, i gotta be, somewhere that i can just be me.
& i run run runaway, run run runaway, run run runaway, i runaway.


Share a last cigerette, then walk into the station, purchase two tickets to an alien destination.
Board the train & witness pain on all the faces, of multi-cultural races,
but not me & my girl we're breaking free, like an escapist, 'coz we need to escape this.
& I for one have got my mind made up, even if where we stay is make-shift.
I can't remain in this domain of semi ape shit, because all i see is hatred.

I wonder if I dissappeared how many men would miss me,
or would they all forget like i erased my name from history?
I'm still trying yet to make a break within the chain of pain & misery
& vanish off the planet like a mystery.
& if I did return would things be the same or worse?
You see the gear stick shift & then the whip reverse & i'd be straight back on my travels.
Burning rubber over gravel 'til we see the English Channel.


CHORUS (Yasmin)
I gotta leave, I gotta go, there's nothing here for me no more.
I gotta be free, i gotta be, somewhere that i can just be me.
& i run run runaway, run run runaway, run run runaway, i runaway.


As the carriage pulls away, I pull my lady closer & I tell her she's okay,
'Coz if we never broke the barricades today we'd always be afraid,
& left to feel threatened in this dark & deadly maze.
But now i've come of age, & as the train starts enterin' suburbia a smile comes across my face.
The unwinding of eternal rage, that was locked up inside just like my mates behind prison gates.

If I could runaway & come back another day,
I'd let the song play, on the summer's longest day.
Kick back & just enjoy the raves, with a lager & a spliff to blaze.
If I ever contemplate returning to this crazy place,
I'd leave it long enough so they don't recognise my face.
I'd let the song play, on the summer's longest day.
While I roll upon the roads along the motorway.


CHORUS (Yasmin)
I gotta leave, I gotta go, there's nothing here for me no more.
I gotta be free, i gotta be, somewhere that i can just be me.
& i run run runaway, run run runaway, run run runaway, i runaway.