Laura Stevenson - Runner lyrics

To give yourself a little bit of hope's a lie
You said
"we're just spinning where we stand"
And if you cling to tokens
For your life you find
You wind up with imaginary men

Static transmit me
To the other side of another room in pieces
Like a steady beating

The summer hurts
The summer hurts the summer hurts
The summer hurts the summer hurts
The summer hurts

The telescopic pull of what you know's a lie
It's broken down a hundred thousand times
The parts collapse
In caving they're inside the atmosphere
We're carving out our names into the air

You are a runner
The steady balance as you're gaining in speed
A photograph to scale the
Thrashing of your feet
And it won't be over until the
Big backhand of the sun
Beats the tar out of the road
You're on until it's won you

The summer hurts the summer hurts
The summer hurts the summer hurts
The summer hurts the summer hurts

And as for all your
Suffering you won't escape
The sting until you're buried in the ground
The beauty that you breathe into the
Air won't clear your name
You have been sinning since the
Day you came around

You are a runner
The steady balance as you're gaining in speed
A photograph to scale the
Thrashing of your feet
And it won't be over until the big
Backhand of the sun
Beats the tar out of the road
You're on until it's won you

The summer hurts the summer hurts
The summer hurts the summer hurts
The summer hurts the summer hurts