There was a boy who ran away  From what he didn't know  And whom he wouldn't say he just had to go  Something it snapped inside of him as he fled from a nameless threat  Crowds of people stand aloof in Waterloo there's no sunset  And when he gets to that mythic place the streets are  Dirty dark and deep  There is no rest there is no place to lay a head to sleep  There was a boy who ran away from what he didn't know  And whom he wouldn't say he just had to go  I went to so much trouble to banish you from my side  He said that your an accident  An accident about which I should forget  And now that the wheel has gone around he's back where he belongs  And he knows there is no hope only solace in the words of this song  There was a boy who ran away from what he didn't know  And whom he wouldn't say he just had to go