Lyrics:

I Came Running

I came running when the older kids were pulling on your hair
And I got my ass kicked for interfering in affairs
That weren’t my own, but you know how I am.
Then we became friends, and we shook each other’s hands.

Doing everything together, except fall in love
Cause I was the shy guy, you had another crush

But I kept my mouth shut, cause you always made me smile
Whisper secrets, jokes, acting crazy and wild. –

I’d run and get the band-aids when you would scab your knees.
Glad to please, but mad that you were naïve. –

But one day, when we laid in the grass, guessing figures in the skies.
And – letting time pass. Forgetting my class, and how young I was.
And what love was, as we stared up above.

Then you looked into my eyes, and you asked for one thing.
That we’d be best friends till the day we die from morphine.

– I came running when you said your parents got a divorce
Got to your house, you already plotted the course.

– We ran away to the woods and kissed each other’s cheeks.
– Played in the leaves and – pissed in the creeks and
I wiped your tears away – with just one thumb.
And you still wondered why people can’t get along.

6 years later and nothing’s really changed
and we kept the same promise to our grave

I came running when you and your boyfriend broke up
Cause he found another lover, and he said so what?
You were pissed off with the world and all its endeavors.
And I tried to console you with everything will get better.

So you started hanging out with the wrong crowd,
Asking me, “We’ve been best friends for how long now?” 13 years
We would still hug when we walked in the hallways
Passing me notes ending with “best friends always.”

I came running when you called and thought you overdosed.
On something you didn’t know what it was or even where it goes.

– I gave you water and I gently held your hair. And you said you couldn’t breathe, please, this is no fair.

– I rushed you the hospital and stayed by your side
for as long as possible – on the ambulance ride.

– Then you were screaming that we can’t be friends.
Our relationship’s destructive and it’s for the best.
But all I could ask is what gives? And I walked away from your bed with my chin to my chest.

10 years later and I’m driving on the highway
Thought I had a bad dream, you were in it by the way
Wasn’t really sure if it was real or a tragedy
On my way from work, and ignoring all the chattering

As the car in front of me just blew its tire out,
Swerved in the opposite lane, flipped, a fire now

Distracted, I crash this – car into another one.
Fearing for my life, as the crash makes a thunderous
Sound in my ears, it’s all I can hear.
But something was telling me there was more than what appears.

Adrenaline is in my veins, blood is rushing to my brain
And all I can care about is the car in the opposite lane.
I rushed to the car, just hoping for a sign of life.
Wishing that God would only take mine tonight.

Blood on the windshield, hoping that I’m second guessin.
Pulled the person out, and found it was my best friend

I came running
Please say something
They know nothing
Please say something