Run Off Lyrics

On the anvils of my mothers home I forged myself a steel backbone

When a magical man who claimed to be my father walked in on stilts

And said, "that's the trick about sin, its the doer that she does in,"

In his classic artificial humor, his charade of some good will

Then he ran off with those callow punks

Beautiful prep-school pricks

And harmless seminarian misfits

To study women, booze and lots of drugs

Our silly little oblivions

In Marriage of molecular accidents

He come through town every now and then, reeking of his sleepless sweat

Pale in his pantomime of some unholy agitation

He said "The blind, deaf and all the rejects, they ain't de fined by their defects"

With an au devoir and he was off to tour the nation

Running off with those callow punks

Dutiful prep-school pricks

And harmless seminarian misfits

To study women, booze and lots of drugs

Our silly little oblivions

Marriage of molecular accidents

I got a knock upon the door one day

He said, you know that ain't here to stay

But there's something I wanted to tell you, son

"Take everything I say with a big pillar of salt

Be fasting of your fury kill scaffolding of song

So we may learn to say nothing as though we're saying it all

Forgive my transgressions for I am righting all my wrongs"

I said, "you took off with those callow punks

Beautiful prep-school pricks

And harmless seminarian misfits

To study women, booze and lots of drugs

Our silly little oblivions

Marriage of molecular accidents?

And did you once ever wonder if

Your son wanted to travel with

His father to a world beyond his reach

To study women, booze and all the drugs

And maybe hug his daddy once

And fall asleep to passing headlight beams?

My father rose his head and knew what he had to do

And my father rose his hand

And I rose mine too

We headed far and wide and east and west

The seven wonders and all the rest

Became our beds for many years to come

We studied God, stars, and open road

I only hope that my son back home

Ain't mad I don't return to where I'm from