Lionchild - Jake Morley

At some stage the air just came too much bear

And I had to leave home

Tame like a lionchild who’s only known the cage

At an age, he craves the wild

I need to be alone

When I feel the waves start to break

The noise is thick, escape I’m breathing in the smoke the air

And the clothes start to tear, yeah I’m throwing off the chains

And running away to roar

There’s something you’ve gotta know

Sometimes I need to be alone

Are you strong enough to take me as I am my love

So I dive out the door

I’m fleeing from the scene

And I’m screaming but I’m silent

Like I’m having a bad dream

Heart beating, overheating

I cannot move for people

I just need to be alone

And as the hustle grows dim

I slip within the cracks between the facts and the memories

For a moment I’m roaming free amid the grass and trees

Will you stand well back, please

There’s something you’ve gotta know

Sometimes I need to be alone

Are you strong enough to take me as I am my love

But what does it mean to run away

When the thing I’m really running from is

Inside and always comes along

Like a raincloud looming near the sun

Can you give the gift of patience

I need to be alone

So I fall back to the start

I’m scrawling on an envelope

I write in liquid hope

Tail thrashing, jaws gnashing

I’m in suffocating metal

Boiling like a kettle

There’s something you’ve gotta know

Sometimes I need to be alone

Are you strong enough to take me as I am my love