Running
Chasing Life's Shadows: Unraveling the Essence of 'Running'
Lyrics
Because I always feel like running
Expressing a consistent inclination to run.
Not away, because there is no such place
Clarifying that it's not about running away since there's no ideal escape.
Because, if there was I would have found it by now
Highlighting a persistent search for an escape route, if it existed.
Because it's easier to run
Choosing to run as it seems a more manageable option.
Easier than staying and finding out you're the only one
Preferring to run than facing the reality of being the only one who didn't run.
Who didn't run
Emphasizing the fear of being the only one who stayed.
Because running will be the way your life and mine
Predicting that running will define both the speaker's life and the listener's life.
Will be described
Stating that running will be a significant aspect of their lives.
As in "the long run"
Referencing the concept of the "long run" as a metaphor for life.
Or as in having given someone a "run for his money"
Associating running with giving someone a challenge or competition.
Or as in "running out of time"
Suggesting that running is linked to the pressure of time running out.
Because running makes me look like everyone else
Running to conform and not stand out.
Though I hope there will ever be cause for that
Expressing a hope for a situation where running is unnecessary.
Because I will be running in the other direction
Committing to running in the opposite direction when the need arises.
Not running for cover
Not running for protection or shelter.
Because if I knew where cover was
Acknowledging a lack of knowledge about a safe place to seek cover.
I would stay there and never have to run for it
Expressing a desire to stay in a place of safety if one existed.
Not running for my life
Avoiding running solely for survival.
Because I have to be running for something of more value
Stating the necessity of running for something more valuable than life itself.
To be running and not in fear
Desiring to run without the burden of fear.
Because the thing I fear cannot be escaped
Explaining the fear is inevitable and cannot be escaped.
Eluded, avoided, hidden from, protected from, gotten away from
Listing various ways the fear cannot be avoided or protected against.
Not without showing the fear as I see it now
Noting that showing fear is an unavoidable consequence of the escape attempts.
Because closer, clearer, no sir, nearer
Emphasizing the immediacy and proximity of the fear.
Because you of you and because of that nice
Attributing the imminent running to the listener's actions.
That you quietly, quickly be causing
Anticipating the listener causing the speaker to run rapidly and quietly.
And because you're going to see me run soon
Predicting the listener witnessing the speaker running soon.
And because you're going to know why I'm running then
Stating that the listener will understand the reason for running when it happens.
You'll know then
Reinforcing that the explanation will be given when the time is right.
Because I'm not going to tell you now
Declining to reveal the reason for running at the present moment.
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