Rabbits On The Run

Vanessa Carlton Rabbits On The Run Lyrics
1.Carousel

Lyricist:Vanessa Carlton

For all you broken hearted lovers lost
Go find another one
'Cause you know time won't wait and you'll be late
White rabbit's on the run

It's hard to know what's good for you
I know she'll let you down
But the fever breaks when it's too much to take
So you can put your weapons down

All you'll hear is the music
And beauty stands before you
And love comes back around again
It's a carousel, my friend

Never too late to change the pace
So all the days creep up on you
But the goodness is something you don't have to chase
'Cause it's following you

And all you'll hear is the music
And beauty stands before you
And love comes back around again
It's a carousel, my friend

I thought I heard your voice in the thunder
It's the owl casting spells that we're under
I thought I heard your voice in the thunder
It's the owl casting spells that we're under

I thought I heard your voice in the thunder
It's the owl casting spells that we're under
I thought I heard your voice in the thunder
It's the owl casting spells that we're under, under

And all I hear is the music
And beauty stands before me
And love comes back around again
It's a carousel, my friend

It's in the music
And beauty stands before you
And love comes back around again
It's a carousel, a carousel
It's a carousel, my friend

And time won't wait, so don't be late
White rabbits on the run


2.I Don't Want To Be A Bride

I like your company
Got a fresh philosophy
Never knew you're such a gentleman

You could take me on a cheap vacation
I don't wanna have expectations
'Cause you could be the end of me

I don't need a house on a hill
Swing on a tree, grandfather clock
Porcelain for tea, a garden with rose and jasmine

Gonna get drunk on a bottle of wine
No better way to pass the time
Forever by your side

But I don't wanna be a bride
Apologies to your mother
I wanna be your girl
And spend this life with you

But I don't wanna wear white
You know it's too late for that
Can we keep the ever after?
Could it be?

Don't need no golden ring
It'd be no match for the love you bring
From London to Tennessee

We could catch a train to another life
On a whim under the moonlight
I promise you, will you promise me?

Our last names on a wooden sign
Arm and arm where the river starts to wind
Forever by your side

But I don't wanna be a bride
Apologies to each other
I wanna be your girl
And spend this life with you

But I don' t wanna wear white
We know it's too late for that
But can we keep the ever after?
Oh, could it be? Just you and me

We will live like kings under lavender
Skies, skies
We will live like kings under lavender
Skies, skies

We will build a poem, we kept a rhyme
Wrapped our love in golden twine
We wrote, we wrote a legacy

Just you and me
Just you and me
We will


3.London

Waste away the days
Waiting on a new age
But time betrays me
And I get older one more year

Walk London's windy streets
Go anywhere but home
'Cause I'm looking for the secrets
That only cobble stones hold
Only the cobble stones know

And I've never been so sure
That after all these years, I'll never learn
That heavenly creatures never come

You've got a knife-throwing kind of love
But your silence cuts the deepest
And I know I've made a mess of things
And I'm sorry for all that
Wish we could get the time back

Because I've never been so sure
That after all these years, I'll never learn
That heavenly creatures never come
Wait for it, wait for it

Now I'm staring at the sun
As if there's a riddle I'm not in on
'Cause the wolves howl to the moon
And she never answers back
No, she never answers back

And after all these years, I'll never learn
That heavenly creatures never, never been so sure
That after all these years, I'll never learn
That heavenly creatures never come

Waste away the days
Waiting on a new age


4.Fairweather Friends

Say you see through the folly
But you do it for the fame
And I'm fighting the jet stream
Drinking cheap wine on airplanes

You're in LA, not Chicago
Key under mat
I walk the dog, order in
Home alone

Found your letter on a full moon Sunday night
Some other girl in your spell, casting plans for her life
Pour the vodka and it dulls sharp lies
Breathe the words of diamonds on rings

You didn't mean to do it
So I don't have to believe it
If you didn't really mean it
Magical thinking gets us by

Sing for the aftershow, those candy-colored lips
Your age is showing and you've gotta harder for it
It's always easier with freshmen
I'm not as clever, it should bring you to life

You didn't mean to do it
So I don't have to believe it
If you didn't really mean it
Magical thinking gets us by

My fairweather friend
Fairweather friend

Live for the folly, but you did it for the fame
Now you're fragile as porcelain
Drinking cheap wine on airplanes
Did I ever leave Chicago?
I got your message, glad you're doing well

You didn't mean to do it
So I don't have to believe it
If we didn't really mean it
Magical thinking gets us by
Gets us by, gets us by

Say you see through the folly
But you did it for the fame
Say you see through the folly
But you did it for the fame

Say you see through the folly
But you did it for the fame
Say you see through the folly
But you did it for the fame
My fairweather friend


5.Hear The Bells

Stealing glances through the key hole
In a brick wall's wooden door
Change are keeping quite secrets
Two hundred year old folklore

And the graveyard on Elizabeth
No one ever goes
Kneeling praying to a gravestone
But the gravestone never tells

Hear the bells
Hear the bells

December crossing on to Chinatown
As the wind starts to cut through
Always, always on the lookout
But the poisons running through you

Stomachaches, try to concentrate
Walk the stairs on the third floor
Now I'm asking a witch doctor
But the witch doctor won't tell

Hear the bells
Hear the bells
Hear the bells
Hear the bells

Floating on the sea, stars are watching me
Current takes me out, what will be will be
Floating on the sea, stars are watching me
Current takes me out, what will be will be

Hear the bells
Hear the bells
Hear the bells
Hear the bells


6.Dear California

As usual, I'm in a tricky predicament
Weather in my thoughts, on the roof sneaking a cigarette
Dear California, it's been nice to know you
Tell me, will you miss me when I'm gone?

'Cause he loves me as I leave, so I'm gonna go
I'm not in companies when you feel it most
And you keep my memory, hope you keep me close
Would you love me as I leave?

This alchemy is making me suspicious
As if I slipped you some belladonna
That I crossed town to get, don't you know?
Yes, my grand friend checks it

Oh, he loves me as I leave, so I'm gonna go
I'm not in companies when you feel it the most
And you keep my memory, hope you keep me close
Would you love me as I leave?

Ever changing as the sea, it's my only hope
It's just me and my pup in the open road
But your face is like a paper-cut to the heart
Slip away while you sleep

It's easy, it's easier than it seems
It's easy, it's easier than it seems
Just go, I'll go, don't cry
I don't know, I don't know, but you fly, hey
Paper-cut to the heart

Oh, he loves me as I leave, so I'm gonna go
I'm not in companies when you feel it most
And you keep my memory, hope you keep me close
Would you love me as I leave?

Ever changing as the sea
Would you love me as I leave?
(Dear, California)
Would you love me as I leave?
(Dear, California)

Would you love me as I leave?
(Dear, California)
Would you love me as I leave?
(Dear, California)


7.Tall Tales For Spring

God rest His head Sunday afternoon
The wicked in me is surely the wicked in you
We pray to a ghost that we never met
Time turns for a cure, from the sciences rolling

Madness, madness of the heart
But you knew it, you knew it from the start

And Hawking will tell us no tall tales this spring
Your mind saw the chaos that started everything
Maybe it's faith, and the sadness takes hold
Still stars through the window, will we ever know this?

Madness, madness of the heart
You knew it, you knew it from the start
Madness, a madness of the heart
But you knew it, you knew it from the start

Stare a sleepy smile into a sunbeam
There's nothing more than a daydream
Colored stained glass cathedral
Confines a past that won't let you go

God, rest Your head Sunday afternoon
The wicked in me is surely coming through
Pray to a ghost that I've never met
So I'm searching for someway out of this mess

It's the heart, it's the heart
And there is a madness, a madness in the stars
But you knew it, you knew it from the start


8.Get Good

Are the echoes coming back to you?
Is wisdom seeing patterns on a loom?
Like a blanket around you
You believe in colors when I saw you

Put your velvet on the moonlight
Have you lost your constellations eyes?
You could give a time, I wish I could be there
Wish I could make it right

Don't you worry, you'll soon be on the mend
That's no trick, that flicker of radiance
You'll feel lucky, darling, I'm sure of it
You'll figure it out and get good again

Stone wall run, hills are green
Golden dust and dandelion seen, about a soft serene
Oh, it's been so long since path of soft serene
It's been so long

But don't you worry you'll soon be on the mend
That's no trick, that flicker of radiance
You'll feel lucky, darling, I promise you this
You'll figure it out and get good again

You said you don't know why you don't feel free
No, it's not true but I know what you mean
I want to thank you for being so good to me
I just wanted you to know

Are the echoes coming back to you?
Is wisdom seeing patterns on a loom?
Like a blanket around you
We'll look out for each other
Yeah, I'll look out for you
We'll look out for each other

Don't you worry you'll soon be on the mend
That's no trick, that flicker of radiance
You'll feel lucky, darling, I'm sure of it
Figure it out, yeah, we'll get good again

I'll figure it out and we'll get good again
I'll figure it out, get good again

In a dream
Dandelion fields in a dream
Dandelion fields in a dream


9.Marching Line

Boots on concrete
Don't slip on the leaves, smile at the strangers
Won't know what you mean
Clouds like cathedrals, night hits the sea

And I walk to the high light
Ships gonna take me at midnight
Storms sounding out like an overture
It's time to join the marching line

Take back your list
You don't know what love is like, a bullet in the chest
And I never say yes
There, on a day without a quiet regret

So I walk to the high light
Ships gonna take me at midnight
Storms sounding out like an overture
It's time to join the marching line
Leave it all behind and join the marching line

And there's no captain who calls
'What's your name?'
An army of one
It's just me and a drum

Do you know a love like a bullet in the chest?

Ships on gray seas
Waves keep the time like my heartbeat, it's an overture
It's time to join the marching line
Leave it all behind and join the marching line

Fortune tellers, fortune still hurt


10.In The End

And in the end
You begin again
It's the way of all things

Your body's like a wishing well
Of a million diamonds
Her bones to dust bursting
Into a million diamonds

And you'll carry on
'Cause in the end
It's the way of all things
It will be beautiful