Name: Escape Artist
Duration: P00H04M32S
Description: This is an admission of fault.

Escape Artist

from As The Crow Flies by Auntie Establishment

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This is an admission of fault.

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I've ran away from every home I've ever known
between concrete and the comfort of friends
and I'll claim today's the day that I've finally outgrown
the people on whom I could depend
I spend afternoons contently sleeping in my head
picturing a heartfelt farewell
I'm still sat alone a thousand miles from where I fled
is freedom just another jail cell?

but just like clockwork
I return to say goodbye
but it grows awkward
as we no longer can cry
I feed off sentimental
soundbytes of our lives
and I've grown hungry
in the time since I arrived

I wonder what you'd think if you knew what I'd become
or maybe I was like this all along
either way I'd appreciate a little something to numb
the restlessness I feel when I belong
I've hidden my white flag between my legs so no-one knows
the ease with which I packed it all in
but I can't walk away without revealing my mistakes
and I'm sick of speaking over fine-tuned violins

my father left me
a plan to leave behind
all the worries
we accumulate in life
he befriended
the bottle, so why can't I?
he befriended
the road, so why can't I?

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from As The Crow Flies, released December 30, 2014

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