Running After Midnight Lyrics - Howard Lawrence

Living in this world alone 

Keeping all the pain inside 

Fortifying walls will stop them cold 

Backing down is just suicide 

Deadbolt the doors 

Staving off intruders you mark the line 

Others cross if they're feeling lucky 

Run... 

You wanna live like the king who stole the crown 

Run... 

You wander everywhere searchin for higher ground 

Reset your compass 

Navigate the course 

No conscience 

No remorse 

And when they find you [they never will] 

Make the whole gang suffer-it's what you're all about 

Running after midnight when the lights burn out 

Dying in this world alone 

Enemies you can't reveal 

Situations pave the road you'll follow 

Tell us what you feel 

Racing down an uphill course 

Changing direction when taken by force 

Who took the risk believing in miracles? 

Run... 

Erase the memories to flee your troubled past 

Run... 

Take cover-there's rubble beneath the blast 

Will you do what you're told? 

Or let them drill your head full of holes? 

Better learn to steal... 

...these terms are unreal 

Counter pending offers with pennies for a pound 

Running after midnight while the leaves turn brown 

How do you know which way to go? 

Caught in a trap trying to shake a bad rap 

Backstabbers all the way... 

They'll drown you in the sea of shame 

Then make you beg for mercy to clear your name 

Run... 

Rolled nickels and dimes you pledge to leave behind 

Run... 

Clothes never returned in the bags of rags you burn 

Tickets in hand you sneak right by the doorman 

Repaid in the end with dementia and gout 

Running after midnight till the sand runs out