When you get to the top in the small town
   Then you find you got friends you never knew about
   It's five AM but I keep on walkin'
   I can't go home for success has locked me out
  
   You see my luck went to his head
   He could have kept quiet but instead
   Now everyone knows
  
   [Chorus:]
   I'm running away from you
   I'm running away from you
   I'm running away from you
   And your heart
  
   It started off just a small time scandal
   The people talk and they smile to win your confidence
   Mistaken trust that you took as friendship
   Has let you down when you needed to be up
  
   Well all the money in the world
   Can't buy the silence of this girl
   So now everyone knows
  
  
   [Chorus]
  
   And you know that we will always stay
   Lovers in a small town kind of way
   But the high life called you
   I should have known but instead
  
   [Chorus]
  
   Thinking back to when I first met you
   So shy and young as an innocent
   You were number one
   No real desires I just want to be near you
  
   You took my love, my emotion, then off you ran
   My reputation as your flag
   You held it high I bet you're glad
   That everyone knows
  
   [Repeat chorus to end]