Falling Sickness was a Riverside, California based Punk Rock band, consisti… Read Full Bio ↴Falling Sickness was a Riverside, California based Punk Rock band, consisting of Fritz Aragon (vocals, guitar), Zach (vocals, bass), Gabe Gil (vocals), and Angel Ieven (drums). After six years of being an unsigned band and playing mostly local shows, Falling Sickness were signed to Hopeless Records in 1995. Their debut record Right On Time was released soon after in January of 1996. The record which chronicled the first six years of the band is "about drinking, daydreaming and fucking up; a testament of our youth. After all, when we started [Gabe] was only 17 and Fritz was 14".[1] Their next, and final, record as a band, Because the World Has Failed Us Both was released in February of 1998 also on Hopeless Records. 'Because the World Has Failed Us Both' is "about our growing up" and focuses more on worldly politics rather than the teenage politics of 'Right On Time'. In 2000, Falling Sickness disbanded. Since then, Fritz and Angel have formed the band Dogs of Ire.

Runaway
Falling Sickness Lyrics

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This worlds too big for me
Keeps growing everyday
There's just no room for me
I think I'll runaway
What's with all this fucking competition
We place ourselves in categories and divisions
It seems to me we all have to play the game
It's always the fucking same

I think I'll runaway-Somewhere faraway
I think I'll runaway-Can't take another day
Operations are taking over
We can't let that happen-
But you just stand there like a stupid shit
Tell me how we're supposed to stand together?
Understand we're self-destructing bit-by-bit
I think I'll runaway-Somewhere faraway
I think I'll runaway-Can't take another day
There's nothing negative about it
We all feel the same sometimes

Unity- I really doubt it
I'm gonna runaway from it all this time...

Overall Meaning

In Falling Sickness's song Runaway, the singer is expressing their feelings of being overwhelmed and suffocated by the world around them. They feel like the world keeps getting bigger every day and there's just no room for them in it. The singer is frustrated with the way society is structured, with everyone competing against each other, categorizing and dividing themselves. They feel like they're being forced to play a game that they can't win, and it's always the same. As a result, they decide to run away to somewhere faraway, where they can escape from all the pressures of the world.

The singer also expresses their frustration with the way the world is being taken over by operations, presumably referring to corporations and big business. They feel like everyone is just standing by and letting it happen without doing anything to stop it. The singer asks how they're supposed to stand together and prevent this from happening if people are just going to stand by and do nothing. They don't believe in the concept of unity because, in their view, everyone is too busy self-destructing.

Overall, the song portrays a sense of hopelessness and a desire to escape from a world that seems to be getting more and more suffocating by the day. It highlights the frustrations of feeling like you're constantly competing against everyone around you, and the importance of standing together to fight against powerful forces that are harming the world.

Line by Line Meaning

This worlds too big for me
The world is too overwhelming for me to handle

Keeps growing everyday
The world keeps getting bigger and harder to navigate

There's just no room for me
There's no space for me to fit in and be myself

I think I'll runaway
I want to escape from this reality and start anew somewhere else

What's with all this fucking competition
Why are we constantly competing against each other?

We place ourselves in categories and divisions
We segregate ourselves based on our social status, race, gender, religion etc.

It seems to me we all have to play the game
Everyone is forced to follow the same set of rules in society

It's always the fucking same
The monotonous and repetitive nature of society is frustrating

Operations are taking over
Bureaucracy and formal processes are becoming more important than actual people

We can't let that happen-
We have to take action to prevent this from happening

But you just stand there like a stupid shit
Other people are not doing anything to stop these operations from taking over

Tell me how we're supposed to stand together?
We need to unite and work together to prevent this from happening

Understand we're self-destructing bit-by-bit
We are slowly destroying ourselves as a society

There's nothing negative about it
There's nothing wrong with wanting to escape and start anew

We all feel the same sometimes
We all experience feelings of helplessness and despair at times

Unity- I really doubt it
I'm not convinced that unity is possible given the state of society

I'm gonna runaway from it all this time...
I want to run away from everything and start fresh

Lyrics © BMG RIGHTS MANAGEMENT US, LLC , Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
Written by: GEORGE S CANLER, MIKE SKILL, WALTER PALAMARCHUK

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