Going Away

I wrote this summer 2001. My pace of songwriting slowed down that summer (and has stayed slow), but I started being more consistent in writing songs I actually liked. Yeah, this is pretty much just about having those days where you don't lke people.

I'm going away and I'm never coming back
'cause all you jerks won't cut me any slack
I'm surrounded by people but no one understands
and I'm really sick and tired of putting up with your demands

Chorus: I'm going away, oh so far away
Nothing you can say, 'cause I'm running away today

I'll be a melancholy hermit, I'll dress only in black
I'll move out to the wilderness I'll go live in a shack
what I'll do when I get there I really don't know
maybe I'll write a book like Henry David Thoreau
yeah, seems these days that lots of folks are fond
of trying to re-create Walden Pond

Out in the woods I'll have no need for money
I can live off locus and honey
it's not like anyone will miss me
of all the girls I've loved not one of them would kiss me
I hope by now my listeners realize
that all this is nothing but lame rhymes and lies

I'd never go away, oh so far away
I'm afraid to run away, so I'll just stay here today