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Runaway Lyrics
She speaks like the rain,
But she howls at the moon.
She runs like the sun in the winter,
She's not coming home soon.
She follows the rain,
She runs like the water.
She revels in all his pain,
She hits like her father.
She speaks like she wants,
Words dripping with disdain.
She tells you she loves another,
But she keeps you in awe, keeps you insane.
'Cause she don't give a shit about you,
She will let you run away,
So just run away, run away.
No she don't give a shit about you,
She will let you run away,
So just run away.
No she don't give a fucking shit about you,
She will let you run away,
So just run away.
No, she don't give a shit about you,
She will let you run away,
So just run away.
But she howls at the moon.
She runs like the sun in the winter,
She's not coming home soon.
She runs like the water.
She revels in all his pain,
She hits like her father.
Words dripping with disdain.
She tells you she loves another,
But she keeps you in awe, keeps you insane.
She will let you run away,
So just run away, run away.
No she don't give a shit about you,
She will let you run away,
So just run away.
No she don't give a fucking shit about you,
She will let you run away,
So just run away.
No, she don't give a shit about you,
She will let you run away,
So just run away.
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This is my personal interpretation It seems its a message from him to the girl who he is interested in. Matt seems almost heartbroken and he just wants the girl to notice him, just him. Almost like a cry, for the girl to care. He has convinced himself that the relationship will go nowhere so he's giving himself a pep talk. In a way he is sabotaging the relationship himself as he doesn't fight for the girl either, he rather 'runaway'. It feels like they are both emotionally in love but don't seem to work it out when it comes to real life.
PS when I first heard the song I thought the line 'But she keeps you in awe, keeps you insane.' When i first heard the song I thought it said 'but she keeps you warm keeps you safe.' hehe
Amazing song.
Maybe my interpretation is similar to the comment below, but for me, it’s about a man being afraid of love, and about him being in love with someone who’s very different from himself. A woman who is maybe wild, warm, open and raw. He on the other hand comes off as distant, scared. He is in awe of her, maybe cuz’ she is different and brave with who she is, but at the same time he wants to run away from her, or rather, it’s more of a self-fulfilling prophecy. If he actually comes close to her, she will leave anyways... so he convinces himself of: “she don’t give a shit about you, so just run away”... as a way to protect himself.
Matt Corby - Runaway (x)
“This is a song about a girl that I met, and immediately pretty much fell in love with. Not really, it was more infatuation. But she turned out to be… a fucking bitch. Just one of those people that uses people, you know what I mean? Everyone has met one of those people, just completely manipulative. I never really experienced it like this before, and she really rattled me.”
Direct quote from him from a live version of the song