The Boy Who Ran Away

There was a boy a ran away

From what he didn't know

Whom, he wouldn't say

He just had to go

Something snapped inside of him

As he fled from a nameless threat

Crowds of people stood aloof in Waterloo

There's no sunset, sunset

And when he gets to this mythic place

The streets are dirty, dark and deep

There is no rest there

There is no place to lay a head to sleep, to sleep...

There was a boy who ran away

From what he didn't know

Whom, he wouldn't say

He just had to go

Went to so much trouble

To banish you from my sight

He said that you're an accident

An accident about which I should forget, forget...

And now that the wheel has gone around

He's back where he belongs

And he knows there is no hope

Only solace in the words of this song

Solace in the world of this song

Solace in the world of this song...

There was a boy who ran away

From what he didn't know

Whom, he wouldn't say

He just, he had to go