[Verse 1]
The days are catchin' up to me
My unconscious fear unbound
Is it time to tailor fit the notion
That come Sunday I'm in the ground?

[Verse 2]
The obelisk fumes have occupied
Emphatically austere
A smelter pile made by the debt collector

[Pre-Chorus]
Where the children should be seen, not heard
Even if there is no way back home

[Chorus]
I'm not running away
I'm not running away
I'm not running away
I'm not runnin' away

[Verse 3]
Can you hear him saber rattlin'
With bones I've left behind?
Obloquy is the bulwark of his implants
Am I your son or just a clone?

[Verse 4]
Dasehra you were sworn to be
A window to my night
My subterfuge, just branches to the mandrake

[Pre-Chorus]
Where the children should be seen, not heard
Even if there is no way back home

[Chorus]
I'm not runnin' away
I'm not running away
I'm not running away
I'm not runnin' away

[Bridge]
Under the aegis of cognition
I am dead, I will escape
Engrammic marks of ligature
I am dead, I will escape
Under the aegis of cognition
I am dead, I will escape
Engrammic marks of ligature
Am I dead? Will I escape?

[Chorus]
I'm not running away
I'm not running away
I'm not runnin' away
I'm not runnin' away
I'm not runnin' away (Am I runnin' away?)
I'm not running away (Am I running away?)
I'm not running away (Am I running away?)
I'm not running away (I am running away)