[Verse 1] The traffic moves in patterns Past a hundred empty signs Everywhere I turn, they tell me How I’m supposed to spend my time Everybody has instructions For a life I never chose I can play along for hours Then I leave and no one knows [Pre-Chorus] So I slip between the seconds Where the noise can’t interfere There’s a place they never gave me And I’m already halfway there [Chorus] Anywhere but here Take me anywhere but here If that’s what waits for me tomorrow Then I don’t belong there Anywhere but here Take me anywhere but here I built a place where you can’t follow You can’t ruin what I keep there [Post-Chorus – Synth and Violin Hook] Anywhere— Anywhere but here [Verse 2] I have roads without directions I have gardens without gates Empty buildings dressed for parties That were never given dates No one hurries me along No one tells me where to be Nothing here expects an answer Nothing wants a thing from me [Pre-Chorus] And the further that I wander The less I hear them interfere There’s a place they never gave me And I’m already halfway there [Chorus] Anywhere but here Take me anywhere but here If that’s what waits for me tomorrow Then I don’t belong there Anywhere but here Take me anywhere but here I built a place where you can’t follow You can’t ruin what I keep there [Long Virtuosic Violin Solo – Soaring Over Driving Synths] [Bridge] They can knock, I won’t come running They can wait outside all night I’ve spent long enough pretending That their way of living’s mine Let them wonder where I’ve gone to Let them say I’ve lost my way I know what I left behind me I know why I chose to stay [Instrumental Rise – Violin and Synth Build] [Final Chorus – Huge, Layered Vocals] Anywhere but here Take me anywhere but here If that’s what waits for me tomorrow Then I don’t belong there Anywhere but here Take me anywhere but here I built a place where you can’t follow You can’t ruin what I keep there [Post-Chorus – Layered Vocals] Anywhere— Anywhere but here Anywhere— Take me anywhere but here [Soaring Violin Outro]
