Drown

VIII: Run Away

Sunday 14th July 1940
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
STEPHEN'S POV

I've now at last made it back to Ottawa but in order to get back home to Ajax I have to take a long five hour train ride, but I'm glad to be back home and not have to worry about the ongoing war, although I of course will be worrying about Ruby, Douglas and many of my friends and colleagues who are still fighting for King and country in their own right. I can't wait to get home and get back to a sense of normalcy instead of worrying if I'm going to live to see the next day or if I'm ever going to see my Mum and Dad again. Although I am back home, I can't help but feel a sense of guilt because I wasn't able to complete the Battle of Britain to its full extent, coincidentally my Dad wasn't able to complete the Battle of Vimy Ridge either, twenty-three years ago due to injury. I've managed to get onto one of the trains that are leaving here, but I'll have to switch trains once I reach Brockville that will take me to Oshawa Station which will then take me directly to Ajax, passing by Whitby to take me to my hometown. After the long journey, I've made it back home at last, now all I have to do is greet my Mum and Dad even though it's been a week and five days since I last saw them, so it's as if I never even left in the first place because it hasn't been very long. After walking for ages from the train station, I've finally made it to the house, so I can go in and greet my parents since I won't be leaving for a length of time again as I have just done. As I walk through the front door, immediately entering the downstairs hallway I toss my heavy military bag on the floor which creates a loud thump alerting my Mum but not my Dad, because since the First World War he's been suffering from a bilateral sensorineural hearing loss as well as shell shock, so his sensorineural hearing loss is the reason why he hasn't heard me arriving but the noise in which my bag made isn't a high frequency. After my Mum and Dad greeted me back home after being away for so long, I decided to write to Douglas to thank him for helping me get back home, helping me with my discharge papers, and more importantly he helped me when I was drowning in the Thames on Wednesday. Also, after writing to Douglas I then started to write my letter to Ruby, letting her know that I was finally home and if she likes the song that I wrote for her whilst I was in St. Thomas's Hospital recovering from my drowning and my Thoracentesis surgery.

Leave me in the sun, I'm melting like a Popsicle
Give me the flu, I'm dying in this hospital
I need you close but you got me backed against a wall
I try to speak but my mouth doesn't move at all

Sing me right back to sleep
I'll never hear your voice break down again
Need you to try to keep
Your distance and I'll come home again

Run away
Don't let me run away, no
Get away
Don't let me get away, no
When the lights come up and you see I'm gone
You wake up to an empty house
And when the music stops and you come undone
You know I'm never gonna get you out (of my head)

Met you in the dark where we stumble into mysteries
An open book that you took and now I'm history
You moved away and you left me with your dying wish
I couldn't prove it was you, you're the arsonist

Sing me right back to sleep
I'll never hear your voice break down again
Need you to try to keep
Your distance and I'll come home again

Run away
Don't let me run away, no
Get away
Don't let me get away, no
When the lights come up, when you see I'm gone
Wake up to an empty house
And when the music stops and you come undone
You know I'm never gonna get you out (of my head)

Run away
Don't let me run away, no
Get away
Don't let me get away, no

Run away
Don't let me run away, no
Get away
Don't let me get away, no
When the lights come up, when you see I'm gone
Wake up to an empty house
And when the music stops and you come undone
You know I'm never gonna get you out (of my head)

Run away
Don't let me run away, no
Get away
Don't let me get away, no
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All rights go to: Blink-182
Written by: Mark Hoppus, Travis Barker and Matt Skiba
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