Smalltown Boy
Dido * Track #1 On BBC Radio 2: Sounds Of The 80s
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Album BBC Radio 2: Sounds Of The 80s
Smalltown Boy by Dido
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This song is about a young gay man who leaves his unaccepting family. He goes to a train station and waits for the next train to nowhere.
Smalltown Boy Lyrics
[Verse 1]
You leave in the morning
With everything you own
In a little black case
Alone on a platform
The wind and the rain
On a sad and lonely face
[Verse 2]
Mother will never understand
Why you had to leave
But the answers you seek
Will never be found at home
The love that you need
Will never be found at home
[Chorus]
Run away, turn away
Run away, turn away, run away
Run away, turn away
Run away, turn away, run away
[Verse 3]
Pushed around and kicked around
Always a lonely boy
You were the one
That they'd talk about around town
As they put you down
[Verse 4]
And as hard as they would try
They'd hurt to make you cry
But you never cried to them
Just to your soul
No, you never cried to them
Just to your soul
[Chorus]
Run away, turn away
Run away, turn away, run away
Run away, turn away
Run away, turn away, run away
[Bridge]
Cry
Cry
Cry
Cry
[Verse 1]
You leave in the morning
With everything you own
In a little black case
Alone on a platform
The wind and the rain
On a sad and lonely face
[Chorus]
Run away, turn away
Run away, turn away, run away
Run away, turn away
Run away, turn away, run away
[Outro]
Cry
Cry
Cry
Cry
Smalltown Boy Q&A
Who wrote Smalltown Boy's ?
Smalltown Boy was written by Bronski Beat.