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Alan Clayson & The Argonauts - Teenage Runaway

from Ancient And Modern: Highlights of Half​-​a​-​Century by Alan Clayson

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lyrics

Scum rises to the surface without thinking it,
Twists his face into a frown when he's sinking it
In the mineshaft of an iron dream.
He never was too hindered by reality.
It's easier to block it out with fantasy,
Variations on a nameless theme -
That endless, changeless theme
Of how the story could have been.

Now Johnny's on the run from everyone
But no-one's looking for Johnny.
He didn't know how bad it was to live there
With yet nothing to compare it to or somewhere
That would claim him but let him run.
Specific incidents won't stand up to a retell.
There's no need to go into distressing detail
About Johnny raving on
As in one leap he was gone.
Into oblivion.

Now Johnny's on the run from everyone
But no-one's looking for Johnny.

Runaway...very, very suddenly and violently…
Runaway...coincidence contrary to blind chance.
Runaway...slip smoothly from the circumstance so silently...
Runaway...the speed of it has put him in a trance.

The pageant of the dawn's recrimination,
No sunshine on a shocking situation -
And the last place where the black sheep stray...
Shingle seethes and jingles on the beaches,
Sleet-lashed in the land's most distant reaches -
That's where Johnny holds his sway
Till the stark light fades away,
And the dark comes freezing down
Like doomsday…

Runaway...melodrama panorama in the sand dunes...
Runaway...stones condemned to years beneath the deep.
Runaway...his carrier bag escapes and wraiths the half-moon.
Runaway...slipping into his uneasy sleep…


Well, the tide comes in tonight
And Johnny's out of sight.

He's been on the run from everyone.
But no-one's looking for Johnny.

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from Ancient And Modern: Highlights of Half​-​a​-​Century, released December 8, 2023

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