Runners - DANakaDAN, Dia Frampton

They say that we’re runners

Yeah

But I can’t seem to disagree

She said I was gone, and was so right

I was never present when she called me on those nights

I would always regret what would happen in those fights

Feeling so alive to almost nothing, that’s no life

But it’s your life, and what you’ve come to expect

Relationships are damaged so you got to protect

Emotions that you manage, they are starting to wreck themselves

So are the ones you can barely connect

But we are on a quest for something greater than we know

It’s often a battle of man verse the fear of the unknown

When the concept of home is a construct that’s grown

Feeling so alive to sometimes life alone

And for me that line is blurring like each day

Fighting even harder now to hold on to my faith

Barely recognizing when I’m looking at my face

That’s the life I’ve chosen and I’m searching for my place, and at my pace

They say that we’re runners

But I can’t seem to disagree

They say

Gonna lose my way, gotta make mistakes

Find out who we’re meant to be

And then we sing

Oh-oh-oh

Yeah

Oh-oh-oh

They say

And then we sing

Oh-oh-oh

Find out who we’re meant to be

And then we sing

This scarcity of time, believe in it so much

It’s scary, and it’s often a soul crush

But varies and is extreme but follow me closely

Privilege evokes freedom that most of us don’t see

It makes us run off so fast without a clear direction or purpose

Imperfections — they surface

Is it all worth it, everything we’re unearthing?

It leaves us with feelings of unknowns and burdens

And I’ve heard it in the voices of most peers around me

They speak resounding, echoing and pounding

Same thing that’s been hounding me everyday

That this safety that we seek is what we have to blame

All I ever wanted was everything every moment at once

I wanted everything, but having it wasn’t ever ever enough

I wanted everything, but at every moment evolved

So instead of anything, I ran away from it all, its so easy

They say that we’re runners

They say

But I can’t seem to disagree

Gonna lose my way, gotta make mistakes

Find out who we’re meant to be

Yeah

And then we sing

So when I come back I wanna do it right

But how long that takes and how I sleep at night

Is way too beyond me 'cause I will end up wandering

The fact I might not find what I’m looking for is daunting

It’s haunting, has me wanting it even more

And most nights I don’t know why or who I do it for

But some nights it aces, strange sounds and faces

Towns that escape me in far off of places

And I love it, it’s this reason why I’m even writing of it

With every lesson that I’ve learned I would be nothing

Great minds have inspired and made me, I was tired of it lately

But thankfully what I admired is making me accept that there isn’t a thing as

coming back

'Cause with each breath I take, a new one attracts

Lost I am to you, I owe it to this pursuit

Of truth that once grew from a seed I once knew when I was young

They say that we’re runners

They say

But I can’t seem to disagree

Gonna lose my way, gotta make mistakes

Yeah

Find out who we’re meant to be

And then we sing

They say that we’re runners

But I can’t seem to disagree

Gonna lose my way, gotta make mistakes

Find out who we’re meant to be

And then we sing

So when I come back I wanna do it right

But how long that takes and how I sleep at night

Is way too beyond me 'cause I will end up wandering