how do i run from you

[Verse 1]
How do I get away from you
When your scent is everywhere?
On my pillow, in my sheets,
In the clothes I used to wear.

In the silence of my room,
In the bed we used to share,
I keep finding traces of you
Like you never left me there.

[Pre-Chorus]
I hear your voice inside my head,
I laugh the way you used to do.
Your words come out of my mouth,
And I see the world like you.

[Chorus]
How do I run from you
When you're the one I run to?
You're the wound I can't undo,
You're the arms I fall into.

I say I'm done, I say we're through,
But every road leads back to you.
How do I run from you
When I'm still running to you?

[Verse 2]
Can I cry against your shoulder
For the pain you put me through?
Can I find a little shelter
In the arms that hurt me too?

Can I call you from the street
After walking off in anger,
Just to hear you say my name
And feel a little less like a stranger?

[Pre-Chorus 2]
How do I tell you I'm jealous?
How do I say I cannot sleep?
How do I blame you for this heartache,
Then ask you to comfort me?

You're the reason that I'm breaking,
You're the one I want beside me.
How can I ask you to make it right
When you're the one who hurts me?

[Chorus]
How do I run from you
When you're the one I run to?
You're the wound I can't undo,
You're the arms I fall into.

I say I'm done, I say we're through,
But every road leads back to you.
How do I run from you
When I'm still running to you?

[Bridge — soft, almost spoken]
Could there be two of you?
One to break me, one to hold me?
One to leave me in the dark,
One who'd never let me go?

But there's only you,
And I keep wishing you were two:
One I'd finally learn to lose,
One I'd still come running to.

[Final Chorus — emotional, never shouted]
How do I run from you
When you're the one I run to?
You're the wound I can't undo,
You're the arms I fall into.

I want you even when I don't,
I swear I'm leaving, but I won't.
I swear I'm done, I swear we're through,
But every road leads back to you.

[Outro — whispered, piano alone]
I swear I'm letting go...

But there's something you should know.

Even when I walk away,
Even when I choose to stay away...

Every road leads back to you.

Back to you...

[End with piano fading into silence.]