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Could You Run Away

by Caroline Lavelle

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This is a song about running away from the night demons that visit and the vanquishing of them in happiness and freedom.

I wrote this after I talking to a friend of mine in the US who is also a musician and we decided we were going to take my van and his and go in convoy around Europe busking. I’ve always wanted to go on an adventure where you took enough money for the bare essentials so you wouldn’t actually die, but where every day you would busk and that would be the money for dinner that night. If you only got a handful of coins then you’d have to manage on that, but if you got a huge amount then you’d have to spend every last cent on a wonderful meal in a great restaurant. This friend is the only one who actually wants to take me up on the challenge.

lyrics

Could you run away with me
go to places that we've never been
Could you run away with me
And be happy?

I'm as still as a sculptor's dream
filled up with waiting
as my whole life has been.
They drink the darkness like a wine,
seeking prey:
I wonder if that blood is mine.
Could you run away with me
go to places that we've never seen
Could you run away with me
And be happy?
Could you run away with me
be the people that we’ve never been
Could you run away with me
And be happy?

The long night is filled with wires
strung between the walls,
a snare every thought.
They chase the hunted through the dark
ringed about
with lonely terrors of the heart.
Could you run away with me
go to places that we've never been
Could you run away with me
And be happy?
Could you run away with me
be the people that we’ve never been
Could you run away with me
And be happy?

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released July 14, 2023
Produced by John Reynolds

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Caroline Lavelle London, UK

Lavelle, cellist singer/songwriter of three solo albums & songs with Vangelis, Massive Attack and BT, has played with Peter Gabriel, Muse, Radiohead, Vangelis, & Loreena McKennitt.

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