It's easier to run
Replacing this pain with something numb
It's so much easier to go
Than face all this pain here all alone

Something has been taken from deep inside of me
A secret I've kept locked away
No one can ever see
Wounds so deep they never show
They never go away
Like moving pictures in my head
For years and years they've played

If I could change I would
Take back the pain I would
Retrace every wrong move that I made I would
If I could
Stand up and take the blame I would
If I could take all the shame to the grave I would
If I could change I would
Take back the pain I would
Retrace every wrong move that I made I would
If I could
Stand up and take the blame I would
If I could take all the shame to the grave

It's easier to run
Replacing this pain with something numb
It's so much easier to go
Than face all this pain here all alone

Sometimes I remember
The darkness of my past
Bringing back these memories
I wish I didn't have
Sometimes I think of letting go
And never looking back
And never moving forward so
There'd never be a past

If I could change I would
Take back the pain I would
Retrace every wrong move that I made I would
If I could
Stand up and take the blame I would
If I could take all the shame to the grave I would
If I could change I would
Take back the pain I would
Retrace every wrong move that I made I would
If I could
Stand up and take the blame I would
If I could take all the shame to the grave

Just washing it aside
All of the helplessness inside
Pretending I don't feel misplaced
Is so much simpler than change

It's easier to run
Replacing this pain with something numb
It's so much easier to go
Than face all this pain here all alone

It's easier to run
If I could change I would
Take back the pain I would
Retrace every wrong move that I made
It's easier to go
If I could change I would
Take back the pain I would
Retrace every wrong move that I made I would
If I could stand up and take the blame I would
I would take all the shame to the grave



Lyrics submitted by ruben

Track duration: 03:24

"Easier to Run" as written by Dave Farrell, Robert G. Bourdon, Mike Shinoda, Brad Delson, Chester Charles Bennington, Joseph Hahn

Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group

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    General Comment:the lyrics in this song scream abuse. and trying to erase it, forget it, pretend it never happened. "Easier to Run." its easier to run that it is to face it. Yet unfortunately there is something called PTSD that makes it seem in possible to just run away or avoid it all together.
    Flag sho69607on February 29, 2012   Link
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    General Comment:For me this song isn't only about getting depressed over you past and feeling pain/anger/guilt. In the song the lines
    "Sometimes I think of letting go
    And never looking back
    And never moving forward so
    There would never be a past"
    Show that the person is willing to commit suicide in order to never experience the same kind of pain they once did that by this day haunts them down.

    Flag Capricornkidon July 11, 2011   Link
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    General Comment:a secret I HAVE KEPT LOCKED AWAY NO ONE CAN EVER SEE,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,WHAT A LINE.
    Flag Niponon February 20, 2011   Link
  • +1
    General Comment:wounds so deep they never show................what a real line.can anybody feel it??
    Flag Niponon February 20, 2011   Link
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    General Comment:I have related to this song alot. Like every other LP songs, most of the songs relate an personal episode of mine. And because I feel like a mistake, I though of leaving away from it all.
    Flag NeonsOfMe91on January 18, 2011   Link
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    General Comment:Basically this song is saying that it's so much easier to run from our problems then just sit here and try to solve them. This is probably a song to refer of people taking their own lives because they can't take all of there problems. Your better off solving your problems but of course, it's always easier to run. My advice, solve your problems; Don't run away because then it will just get worse
    Flag anthonyd3000on July 29, 2009   Link
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    General Comment:This song speaks to me, my past well lets say it was one of the hardest times u can face at my age. Attacked when my guard was down, stabbed in the back by my best friend, beaten by parents, suicide attempts and thoughts. And honestly it is easier to run, its the hardest thing to face wat ahs happened and somehow grasp a positive from it, running away from ti just makes everything seem better, but it always catches up with u, my past has caught up to me, im now facing times that are harder becuase of the past, running helped but it hasnt made the pain go away. but this song, shit this song helped me through all the times i contemplated death it helped a lot.
    Flag preparedforwaron June 30, 2009   Link
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    General Comment:Another interpretation made by me.

    When I think of this song, I think of six band members(not Linkin Park, no offense). They live in a city where there is a war between adults fighting. The lead singer is on top of his building singer, while the band members are just standing or sitting around town. One of the band members has to deal with bullies everyday, everyday after school, and runs from them around the city, hiding instead of facing them, thinking that it is Easier to Run. At the end, he faces them, and beats them all, but doesn't feel any better. In the end, he screams and wakes up from a dream he was having.

    (I made the album of Meteroa into a story)
    Flag Dragon19on May 20, 2009   Link
  • 0
    General Comment:This song has a very deep and overwhelming effect to me. It makes me think of my darkness past.
    In my thoughts has Linkin Park made this song because,
    Chester Bennington has been through awful things, like sexual abusing. He was just a kid when this happened.

    He has been addicted to drugs like, cocaine as well. When I hear this song, I remember of my own faults, that I'd rather forget. This song relates that, everyone has faults.
    Flag GhostsInTheSnow7on April 02, 2009   Link
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    General Comment:I think its about all problems in life don't want to remember any of them in their lifes. So much Easier to run from the ast don't want to know what they did wrong just want to live not to more any where just to get out of the pain to lose and everything else.
    Flag Rukiaon December 30, 2008   Link

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