## Metadata
**Caption:** pop, orchestral, dramatic build, operatic vocal, 1961, tense, 90 bpm, male vocal
**BPM:** 100
**Duration:** 170.0s
**Key:** E♭ minor
**Time Signature:** 4

## Lyrics
[verse]
We were walking through the market,
Hand in hand like nothing's wrong,
When I saw him at the corner,
Standing where he'd stood so long.
The one who had you first, before me,
The one whose name you never say,
And my heart began to hammer,
Wondering if you'd walk away.

[verse]
I kept my voice as calm as water,
I kept my hand from shaking loose,
But every step we took together
Felt like walking on a fuse.
Would you turn and run to greet him?
Would you leave me standing there?
All the doubts I'd buried deep down
Came rising up for air.

[chorus]
I've been running scared,
Every time a shadow's near,
I've been running scared,
Living on the edge of fear,
Wondering if the love we've made here
Is strong enough to hold,
Or if I'm just a chapter
In a story someone else still holds.

[bridge]
Then you took my face between your hands there,
Looked at me and no one else,
And every fear I'd carried with me
Melted like the winter's shelf.

[chorus]
No more running scared,
No more shadows to defend,
No more running scared,
'Cause you chose me till the end,
Wondering if the love we've made here
Was strong enough to hold —
Now I finally believe it,
Now my heart can let it go.