Running Shoes

Running Shoes

Put me up on a pedestal why don’t you
Let me see the ground from way up here
Lift me up where the buildings reach to
So I can watch you worship me

Come scatter rose petals at my feet dear
And buy me presents everyday
Call me beautiful in the morning
Don’t let your faithfulness ever stray

It’s not that easy
It’s not that great
Being sat up here
My mind starts to frustrate

I don’t belong here
Where you’ve put me
You think too highly of me
My dear

Sit me comfortably on my velvet cushion
Feed me grapes from the great vineyard
Keep me cool with palm leafs blowing
While I’m locked up in your heart

Won’t you watch as the people pass me
Sat up here, without a trace
All the faces they blur and pass me
As I start to contemplate

It’s not that easy
It’s not that great
Being sat up here
My mind starts to frustrate

I don’t belong here
Where you’ve put me
You think too highly of me
My dear

I’m starting to get annoyed now
As my tower, it won’t unwind
I’d like to put my feet back on the ground now
Please stop stealing all my time

It’s not that easy
And it’s not that great
Being forced up here
My mind is really so frustrate

I’m getting restless
As I try to tear you down
Won’t you please just listen
To all the sounds around

Can you hear the mummer
Of my beating heart
Begging, asking, pleading
To go back to the start

Before you put me
All the way up here
Trying to protect me
From the world you so fear

I don’t need your hand
And I don’t need your help
I was doing fine without you
Till you shut, my world out

And this pedestal you built me
And put me way upon
I didn’t once deserve it
So lets leave that and move on

Because its not
Because its hard
Because its starting
To tear me apart

Because you’re driving me crazy
With your obsessive loving words
Just quit and slow down dear
And we’ll be closer to the start

Don’t chase me down, love
Don’t scare me away
Cause once I've got on my running shoes
You’ll never find me, again
You’ll never find me again