Name: Fela by A Murder of Crows
Duration: 3 min 30 s
Description: Afrobeat inspired jam with guitars, bass and drums

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Runaway from the new Twin Shadow album 'caer' out now. #SCFirst

Lyrics: 

I fell out of my lane 
Cause I must have lost my tolerance 
Been covering my pain 
talking to a quiet audience

I knew that crash was comin’ man 
I felt it in my blood 
Great grandma was a voodoo girl 
She told me about the flood 

She said 
Boy 
You are a run away 
You won't have nothing in your hands 
until you give it all away 
Boy you are a runaway
And nothing's gonna change
unless you change

I'm sorry I can't talk right now 
Some things are out of my control 
My fathers in the jail house 
No, I think he’s at the hospital

My mother is incredible 
She’s held us for so long 
She’s like the breath behind my words 
should have the rights to all my songs yea
 

She said 
Boy 
You are a run away 
You won't have nothing in your hands 
until you give it all away 
Boy you are a runaway
And nothing's gonna change
unless you change


I’ve always been a shy kid 
There's a shadow in my name 
I learned a pose to deal with it 
I've had a taste of fame 

But something's always holding back 
My politeness Isn't faux 
But it's never done me any good 
I should probably let it go 


and say 
boy 
You are a run away 
You won't have nothing in your hands 
until you give it all away 
Boy you are a runaway
And nothing's gonna change
unless you nothing’s gonna change unless you change 

Then out of nowhere 
I’m leaning in your window singin
songs out of my soundtrack 
playin back 
permanently into your heart 

boy boy you are a run away 
boy boy nothing in your hands
boy boy you are a run away 
boy boy riding on the last wave

Caer

Runaway

From the new album caer. #SCFirst

Lyrics: 
you wanted a friend 
i wanted you back 
i knew it would end 
our contract was bad 
i knew you would go for those 
obvious, obvious people 


you knew it was wrong 
to hold me close 
you wrestled my fears
without letting me go
but i knew you would fall 
for those obvious, obvious people
 
(CLICK)

I bet your out in his car right now 
lips and hands no longer searching for me 
lust is a need
love is a dream 

and i could follow you right down 
from the desert sands to the light house
where the morning crushes your eyes down
look at me
pull me close 
saturate
come undone
overdose

but he's in love with your soft talk
wrote your name in the side walk
you and him in the parking lot
Friday night 
getting close
let it go 
live your life/lie

you wanted to leave i couldn't agree
to follow you back 
was to give up on me 
i spent my whole live running from 
obvious obvious people 

you spent more than a year trying to forget my past 
I laughed at your tears 
your much better than that 
but I'm blaming us both
we're just obvious obvious people 


i know your out in his car right now 
lips and hands no longer searching for me 
lust is a need
love is a dream

i bet you think I'm in love again
with another one of those blonde girls 
i call friends 
but your the one who can't live alone 
you couldn't wait until i came home

and i could follow you right down 
from the desert sands to the light house
where the morning crushes your eyes down
look at me
pull me close 
saturate
come undone
overdose

but he's in love with your soft talk
wrote your name in the side walk
you and him in the parking lot
Friday night 
getting close
let it go 
live your life/lie

Fela

A Murder of Crows

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