Run Away - Eric Carmen

She was just an average blue-eyed

Golden high school dream

An illusion nothing real could ever touch

Funny love seemed so much more intense

At seventeen

When I knew she’d never love me

Half as much

I recall the desperate vow I made

I must find a way somehow to win her heart

I’ve got to make her mine

Gonna run away

Till I prove that I’m a man

Gonna run away

Be the best I know I can

Got to run away

Got to find my space and time

And I cannot rest a day until I make her mine

Trades were made for promises

Of a timeless memory

And I knew but still refused to comprehend

The fantasy more glamorous

Then she could ever be

Was the course of least resistance

In the end

I recall the desperate vow I made

I must find a way somehow to win her heart

I’ve got to make her mine

Gonna run away

Till I prove that I’m a man

Gonna run away

Be the best I know I can

Got to run away

Got to find my space and time

And I cannot rest a day until I make her mine

Long ago an innocence

Lived deep within my soul

In a yesterday where love

And dreams remain

But disillusion clouds my eyes

And the winter takes it’s toll

For the spring has gone

And will not come again

I recall the desperate vow I made

I must find a way somehow to win her heart

I’ve got to make her mine

Gonna run away

Till I prove that I’m a man

Gonna run away

Be the best I know I can

Got to run away

Got to find my space and time

And I cannot rest a day until I make her mine

Got to run away

Got to find my space and time

And I cannot rest a day until I make her mine