Run and Don't Look Back

[drproximo]

Run and Don't Look Back
Mystic Colossus

This town is killing you slowly
You’ll never find yourself here
You’ve got the chance, return to the city
The realm of your childhood years
You can always be comfortable here
But you’ll never feel quite at home
That voice inside has never been more clear
“Go back to the only home you’ve known”

Run... and don’t look back
Run... and don’t look back
No hesitation, no regrets, stay steady on that track
Run... and don’t look back

This city is killing me slowly
I should have woken up to this long ago
I was finding myself in the city
But there was so much I still didn’t know
I was tempered in the streets, I fought for my rights
And I gave into that drive to roam
But after so many years of fighting the fight
I’m tired and I wanna go home

Run... and don’t look back
Run... and don’t look back
It’s not a clean exit, I’ve got some regrets
but I gotta get out before I crack
Run... and don’t look back

[bridge]

Run... and don’t look back
Run... and don’t look back
I really loved the city, until it didn’t love me back
Run... and don’t look back

[MellyP]

Run and Don’t Look Back

Verses
Damn the big distractions in this world
Then you learn that no one tells the truth
Something deep inside
Goes into overdrive
And leaves you with a most distorted view

It’s sad you’ll never know how much you miss
You try to read the room, but nothing fits
Words aren’t hard to hear
But motives are rarely clear
You connect with people to a point

Pre-chorus
Constantly lost
Hopelessly soft on the hard skills
It’s a blind spot at the front
You try to relax
Try to keep track of the big bills
But it’s the smallest change that haunts you now

Chorus
So run and don’t look back, it’s beyond you
But no one else reads all those social cues
Run and don’t look back, take the long view
Stay the course and don’t be scared to lose

[Siebass]

Run and don't look back

V1

I feel you behind me
Whispering with ghosts
Darkness strains to drown me
We wade through the bones

I step quickly, lightly
Our task no nearer done
The days we've been running
One hundred or just one?

PCH

But Eurydice you're gonna see, the sun the light the sky the trees,
feel breeze against your knees, I'll give anything you please
just

CH

run (run)
and don't look back, just
Run (ruuun)
and don't look back,
don't look back

V2

I made a deathly promise
I must pass this morbid test
Though, if I'm being honest
I'm starting to feel less and less

sure you're behind me
when all I hear are my own feet
I march to the moans of the damned
Still determined not to peek

PCH

Eurydice you're gonna see, the sun the light the sky the trees,
feel breeze against your knees, I'll give anything you please
just

CH

run (run)
and don't look back, just
Run (ruuun)
and don't look back,

BR

Monsters and demons, I leave them all charmed
If you're there behind me we'll make it unharmed

if you're there behind me

If you're there behind me
Eurydice you're gonna see


CH (x2)

run (run)
if we don't look back
run (run)
and don't look back, just

Run (ruuun)
and don't look back,
Run (ruuun)
and don't look back,

Eurydice, you're gonna see.

How hard could it be?

[Future Boy]

Run And Don't Look Back
by Future Boy

Why am I so terrified of learning from the past?
My questions left unclarified because they're never asked
My actions unconsidered, with consequence unclear
So all that's left is loathing, self-abandonment, and fear.

I always run and don't look back
Always retreat, never attack
I'm trying to survive with all my fantasies intact
I always run and don't look back

I dumped a girl in Austin just because she made me cry
But I could never tell you what she did, so don't ask why
Maybe she just tried to get too close to me too fast
My passion burns real hot but then it never seems to last

I always run and don't look back
Always retreat, never attack
I'm trying to survive with all my fantasies intact
I always run and don't look back

All I want is to be wanted, an object of desire
To be the kind of person that my mother would admire
I play the part so perfectly until the little death
And then I slink away because there's nothing left

I always run and don't look back
Always retreat, never attack
I'm trying to survive with all my fantasies intact
I always run and don't look back

You could say that I'm a fuck boy or a narcissistic creep
But you'd miss the fact that most nights I get hardly any sleep
The tail that I am chasing almost surely is my own
So I will never catch it without breakin all my bones

My dreams are filled with bodies bent a thousand different ways
Wrapped around my throat, my arms, my belly, and my legs
My cock exposed to pleasure so intense it makes me howl
And meanwhile I wake up, drenched in sweat ... curled in a ball

I always run and don't look back
Always retreat, never attack
I'm trying to survive with my sanity intact
I always run and don't look back

[JEB]

Run And Don’t Look Back
By JEB

Sitting at my table trying to work it out
All the scarcity and profit in a world so full of doubt
Slowly I recovered all I lost along my route
And I grin at my reflection’cuz I know that I got out

They said run and don’t look back
Take your losses and just leave
But instead I turned to face them
And released a silent scream

‘Cause inside I was dying, yeah I wanted out
I had to keep outrunning all the fear I felt

And they said run and don’t look back
Silent screams can’t be tracked
We’re not listening, you’re not well
I turned and faced them from my hell

I’m not silencing anyone and especially not me
I got here honestly and that will set me free

I don’t need to run and not look back
I can see reality
What was once a scary place
Is now a sacred one for me

Everybody hurts…everybody cries
Running doesn’t change any of the lies
I listened to my heart; I held in to my dreams
Holding on to who I am, I crawl towards the screams

Only in my truth can I find my light
And only deep inside, can I begin to make this right
Only if I stay will I ever be set free
Only if I choose myself, can I become who I can be

They said run and don’t look back
But I felt a different way
I unturned and faced my hell
And I am choosing now to stay…