Get Me Away from Here, I’m Dying
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Get Me Away from Here, I’m Dying Lyrics
Oh, get me away from here I'm dying
Play me a song to set me free
Nobody writes them like they used to
So it may as well be me
Here on my own now after hours
Here on my own now on a bus
Think of it this way
You could either be successful or be us
[Chorus 1]
With our winning smiles and us
With our catchy tunes and words
Now we're photogenic
You know, we don't stand a chance
[Verse 2]
Oh, I'll settle down with some old story
About a boy who's just like me
Thought there was love in everything and everyone
You're so naive!
They always reach a sorry ending
They always get it in the end
Still it was worth it as I turned the pages solemnly and then
[Chorus 2]
With a winning smile, the poor boy
With naivety succeeds
At the final moment, I cried
I always cry at endings
I always cry at endings
Oh, that wasn't what I meant to say at all
From where I'm sitting, rain
Falling against the lonely tenement
Has set my mind to wander
Into the windows of my lovers
They never know unless I write
"This is no declaration, I just thought I'd let you know, goodbye"
[Chorus 3]
Said the hero in the story
"It is mightier than swords
I could kill you, sure
But I could only make you cry with these words
Cry with these words
Cry with these words
Cry with these words"
[Outro]
Oh, get me away, I'm dying
Get me away, I'm dying
Get me away, I'm dying
Get me away, I'm dying
Oh, I'm dying
Oh, I'm dying, yeah
Oh, I'm dying, yeah
Oh, get me away, I'm dying
Get me away, I'm dying
Get me away, I'm dying
Get me away, I'm dying
Oh, I'm dying
Oh, I'm dying
About
The narrator of the song starts out saying he needs a great song because no one writes great ones anymore (think famous hits from the past) and basically says, “I know, I’ll write one right here (this song) right now. Oh who am I kidding? I’m an independent artist, I don’t stand a chance of making a great song.”
Then, while on the bus, he is settling into a story that is run-of-the-mill that starts out with a normal guy just like anyone else who believes there’s good and love in everything and finds out that not everything is great about life and the narrator anticipated it coming but kept reading anyway (as we all do in our lives- not everything is happiness in life like we like to believe when we’re kids, there is tragedy somewhere in life) The narrator always cries at endings maybe the fear of dying or how people always cry at funerals (endings of our lives).
Then he picks himself up from his own internal revelation as if to say, “Oh I didn’t mean to be a killjoy there, sorry.” Doesn’t wanna bring the listener down (irony!) so he apologizes for that. He’s looking out the window on a rainy gloomy day (just like his mindset) thinking about past lovers and how they never know he’s thinking about them unless he writes them a dear john (goodbye/break up) letter and just like in a story, he says “I could kill you with a sword but instead he’ll hurt you with words and make you cry (hurt your feelings/break your heart)”
This song is basically all of B&S’s songs in a nutshell: They’re stories or moments that are a revelation of life and what it really is. Most of their songs are upbeat but gloomy because they reveal the real world truth. Sorry if that didn’t make sense, I went deep there.
The narrator, just like anyone, needs a good song to lift their spirits just for a moment because the world isn’t a sweet little fairytale like a children’s book will make it out to be.
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