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Runts
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Runts was released on March 3, 2017 by 15 Passenger as a part of the album No Resolution
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Release DateMarch 3, 2017
Label15 Passenger
Melodicness
Acousticness
Valence
Danceability
Energy
BPM114

Music Video

Music Video

Credits

PERFORMING ARTISTS
Tim Kasher
Tim Kasher
Vocals
Dylan Ryan
Dylan Ryan
Drums
Gwynedd Stuart
Gwynedd Stuart
Vocals
Mia Barcia-Colombo
Mia Barcia-Colombo
Cello
Patrick Newbery
Patrick Newbery
Vibraphone
Tess Scott-Suhrstedt
Tess Scott-Suhrstedt
Viola
COMPOSITION & LYRICS
Tim Kasher
Tim Kasher
Songwriter

Lyrics

I get so restless I feel trapped inside my body
Wont someone reach in and rescue me?
I can't settle down, settle down, settle down
 
It's not the meds, it's not the dread of decomposing
I can't help this feeling I'm floating
But anchored down to the ground,
To my bones, to my own mortal address
 
I watch the kids walk home from school
I wonder, have I ever been that small?
Been the last one picked for kickball
Against a chainlink fence,
Waiting on a world that won't make amends.
 
There's so much family staking claims upon the future
Son, become a father, a professor
Time to settle down, settle down, settle down
 
My brains on fire, every branch of though is burning
Every loose leaf memory has turned on me
Crackling and signed, floating on the wind,
Grey plumes of debris
 
If you would only cut the cord
I wonder what my grandfather would think?
Fifty years, sweating for his family
He knew how to settle down
 
Three worried weeks, and no, a positive pink plus sign
Aw, fuck my life, she said,
Poppin' half a Xanax with a little wine
She can't settle down, settle down,
And if he can't she can't think about that now
 
She lights the long stemmed candles,
She sets out the nice linen
He hums some old Christmas tune, chopping an onion
She runs it through her head, yet again,
What she'll say and how he'll take it all in
 
Fishing a cigarette butt from the front porch ashtray
Bracing his right hand so it won't shake
He can't settle down, settle down,
Cause he knows he never really will anyway
 
But they're all right, all the same
I mean, more or less, we all turn out just fine
Even the weakest of us runts will survive
And even settle down, settle down
With little runts of our own
 
If we could settle down,
Settle down with little runts of our own
Written by: Tim Kasher
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