running away | NERIYA

i started writing this song on May 15, 2025 and it took me over a year to finish. (normally i finish songs within a couple months) i started with playing it over and over and over again, and listening to my voice recordings a million times in my headphones. but every time i would sit down to record this song there would be some sort of block whether it was lack of inspiration or just frustration. it’s ready now and i am so proud of it. this song is very personal to me and it is one of the most meaning filled songs i have ever written. it came from my heart. here’s running away. lyrics: going back to charleston i used to know this place it’s been such a long time since i last saw your face creases in the sidewalk change with time and space yea hmm somehow i remember though i’ve been far away somehow i remember you and how you said you’d stay you’ve been missing since last fall and it’s already may yea hmm thought you wouldn’t lie again after your apologies thought you would be open but i guess that that was wrong of me yea i should’ve expected it i should’ve seen you hiding and the way she wasn’t crying oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh looks like you’re happy now looks like she got her way think this is resolved but it took two i lived away from me yea go to the park i guess i’ll start i hope you know that you broke her heart yea yea you don’t know how to handle the words you think she’ll say so i guess that leaves you running away running away now you’re running away running away thought you wouldn’t lie again after your apologies (thought you wouldn’t lie) thought you would be open but i guess that that was wrong of me yea i should’ve expected it i should’ve seen you hiding (half expected it) and the way she wasn’t crying oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh running away running away now you’re running away running away running away running away now you’re running away running away ©2026 NERIYA