Cowards (Song lyric).

Verse 1

I remember whispering inside, “Enough. I’m done.”

I’d tasted love’s bright dawn and its blacked-out sun.

I stood so sure of the choice I’d locked away,

yet silence pinned my tongue. I could not say.

.

That morning, keys in hand, I paused mid-stride,

turned at the door to take one last look inside.

Saying “See you, babe,” I could not meet her gaze.

A lie so bare it burned, yet cloaked in haze.

Pre-Chorus

Yes, I lied,

there seemed no other route to change.

Deep inside

guilt twisted through me, tight and strange.

So I ran,

cut corners round the truth because

I am

the coward she believed I was.

Verse 2

I drifted Summer roads like borrowed cloth.

Though daylight blazed, my blood ran winter-frost.

I outran crowds, not shadows in my chest.

The further I fled, the more I felt undressed.

I learned:

there are loafers and the strivers,

true souls and survivors,

middle-lane dreamers and a few sky-divers.

Champions and escape-artists.

Yet the man I face is in the mirror’s hardest glass.

Verse 3

Fate stuttered time and set us track-to-track.

She stalled in place. I circled, crawling back.

Our eyes collided in that godforsaken light.

I read her shame, and trembled at its sight.

Then memory unboxed the unspoken why:

how she refused to meet my searching eye.

Her suitcases upstairs, zipped and stacked.

She’d planned her exit long before I packed.

Chorus 2

Yeah, she lied,

saw no clean angle into change.

Deep inside

she bent beneath the same guilt-strain.

So she ran,

chose distance over us, because

You are

the coward I believed you was.

Bridge

We’d both been haunted, lonesome, coloured blue.

We left each other, neither ever knew.

We sprinted years, yet stood on empty ground.

Is there some ember left not yet burned down?

Outro

I swear

I’ve dodged some honest days,

spun stories into maze,

got little worthy counsel to relay.

Except:

run if you can, walk if you must,

crawl when your muscles rust.

Never let go of us.

Cowards 

I remember saying to myself, “That’s it l’ve had enough”

I’d seen the good and the bad side of love.

I was so sure of the decision I had made,

But wouldn’t say a thing, cos I was too afraid.

As I was leaving that day to go to work,

I stopped at the door to take a final look.

As I said, “I’ll see you babe”, she wouldn’t catch my eye,

I wondered if she knew it was a bare-faced lie!

Yes I lied,

I could see no other way to change

But inside

I was crippled up by the guilt and shame

So I ran

I took the easy way out because

I am

The coward she always said I was.

.

After l’d left I spent a Summer on the road

Despite the heat l’d never felt so cold

I could escape people but not the feelings deep inside

The harder I ran I found the more I had to hide

And I found

There are lazy men and triers

Sincere men and liars

Plenty of the average and a few high fliers

There are fighters and there are runners

But the man I have to face is in the mirror every day.

.

Fate intervened we found ourselves on the same track

She was going nowhere, I was coming back.

When our eyes met in that God forsaken place

I couldn’t understand the look of shame upon her face.

Then I recalled the day I left, she wouldn’t look me in the eye

Slowly and surely I began to realise

As I left for work that day, her bags upstairs were packed

She’d planned to hit the road before I ever got back.

Yeah, she lied

She could see no other way to change

But inside

She was crippled like me with guilt and shame

She ran

She took the easy way out for sure

You are

The coward I always thought you were.

.

All this time we’d both been so alone and blue

We’d both left each other, but neither of us knew.

We’ve both been running hard, but both been standing still

I wonder if there’s something left for us to fullfil.

I swear

I’ve had some some lazy days

In my time I’ve told some lies

And I don’t have no good advice

Except –

Run if you can, walk if you must,

Crawl if you have to, just

never give up.