Sometimes I Want To Run Away
Written byJohn Close 1977
This version recorded 1985

Written around 1977, the lingering influence of rockaballads still hanging around, a touch of The Rubettes maybe. The bridge passage is a pleasant interlude. Recorded in 1985 at the BBC studios, bags of echo on everything!
Sometimes I want to run away
And never come back here again
Sometimes I just can't take it, can't make it
I can't see why love should cause so much pain
You say that love's what life's about
Well, let me say I have my doubts
Sometimes I want to run away
It makes me want to run away

Sometimes I can't hold back the tears
I let them run on down my face
Sometimes I find I'm weeping and deep in my heart
I know it's just a hopeless case
When sorrow throws its worst on me
And I can't find a remedy
It's then I want to run away
Sometimes I want to run away

Oh my darling, right from the start
You held my heart in your hand
Oh my lover, I played my part
But right now I don't understand
That if love is the thing
For which we have been waiting
Why does it wind up in bitching and hating
Why does the sweetest, most delicate flower
Blossom and fade the same hour?

Sometimes I want to run away
And go back to the life I knew
Sometimes it seems like madness, that sadness
Is all that is left between me and you
If love is what we're living for
Why do we seem so insecure?
Sometimes I want to run away
Sometimes I want to run away

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