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Runaway (2006)

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Runaway (2006) Lyrics

[Verse 1]
I've got my things packed
My favorite pillow
Got my sleeping bag
Climb out the window
All the pictures and pain
I've left behind
All the freedom and fame
I've gotta find

[Pre-Chorus]
And I wonder
How long it'll take them to notice that I'm gone
And I wonder
How far it'll take me


[Chorus 1]
To run away (Life don't make any sense to me)
Run away (This life makes no sense to me)
Run away (Life don't make any sense to me)
Run away (Life don't make any sense to me)

[Chorus 2]
I was just trying to be myself
You go your way, I'll meet you in hell
It's all these secrets that I shouldn't tell
I've got to run away
It's hypocritical of you
Do as you say not as you do
I'll never be your perfect girl
I've got to run away
[Verse 2]
Well, I'm too young to be
Taken seriously
But I'm too old to believe
All this hypocrisy

[Pre-Chorus]
And I wonder
How long it'll take them to see my bed is made
And I wonder
If I was a mistake

[Chorus 3]
I might have nowhere left to go
But I know that I cannot go home
These words are trapped inside my head
Tell me to run before I'm dead
Chase the rainbows in my mind
And I will try to stay alive
Maybe the world will know my name
Why won't you help me run away?

[Bridge]
(Life don't make any sense to me) Run away
(This life makes no sense to me) Run away
[Verse 3]
I could sing for change
On a Paris street
Be a red light dancer
In New Orleans
I could start again
Choose a family
I could change my name
Come and go as I please
In the dead of night
You'll wonder where I've gone
Wasn't it you, wasn't it you
Wasn't it you that made me run away?


[Chorus 2]
I was just trying to be myself
You go your way, I'll meet you in hell
All these secrets that I shouldn't tell, I've got to run away
It's hypocritical of you
Do as you say, not as you do
Never be your perfect girl
I've got to run away

[Bridge]
(Life don't make any sense to me) Run away
(This life makes no sense to me) Run away
(Life don't make any sense to me) Run away
(Life don't make any sense to me)
[Outro]
This life makes no sense to me
It don't make no sense to me
It don't make any sense to me
Life don't make any sense to me

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Does P!nk have another song titled "Runaway"?
Genius Answer

Yes, P!nk has another song with the same title, which appears on her 2023 album, TRUSTFALL. Both are two completely different songs. The year of the song’s release, 2006, was added to the title of the I’m Not Dead track to avoid confusion.

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April 4, 2006
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