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Rapunzel

from Volcano by Gecko

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lyrics

I’ve been stuck my whole life in a tower
These bells make my head ring every hour
And every night I pray for a ladder that’s up to the task
‘Cause I’ve been craving the sweet outdoors
Talk about dreams I don’t know about yours
But it doesn’t seem that much to ask
Get me out of here
And get me out fast

Why you running around girl?
Hair so pretty but you don't know your up from your down
Why you running around girl?
Why you running?
Why you running around?

Then one day I was sat at my window seat
Spiky hatted man came into my vicinity
And he stared
He stared right up at me

He said

‘Lay down your hair to me
It can act like stairs for me
Then I’ll climb up there to thee
And your life you could share with me’

I said

‘Boy, are you deluded?
Then we’d both just be up here are you stupid?
I’m trying to leave this bloody location
Not double its population’

The whole situation got real frustrating

‘And even if your mad plan did bear fruit
Would you allow a grown man dangle from your roots?
And don’t be so presumptuous for that matter
I’m not looking for love
But I am looking for a ladder’

He said
‘Girl the world’s full of danger
My castle’s the safest place for an angel like you
With your golden hair so beautiful and long
It would just attract the wrong kind of people
The drunks on life’s paths are inherently evil
And I don't want anyone to do you harm
That’s just where I’m coming from’

And I said

‘Can’t you see what you’re saying to me?
Or are you too focused on saving me?
All I wanna do is get out of here
But I wanna run round fields
Dip my head in streams
Eat berries, my life has been so incomplete
I don’t see how I could make it any more clear
You wanna save a girl from a tower
Only to then build more walls around her
Can’t you see that it’s just the same?
I’m not and ornament
Yeh I’ve got a brain’

Then he said

‘I think I see what you mean’

And then he kindly pulled over the neighbours’ 10 foot trampoline

That’s why I’m running around boy!
Hair so pretty I’m still finding my up from my down
That’s why I’m running around boy!
That’s why I’m running
‘Cause I’ve never been running around

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from Volcano, released October 13, 2017

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Gecko is a London based singer-storyteller, his playful lyrics cover the big things in life; think iPhones, Libraries & Guanabana fruit juice to name but a few.

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