Success Quote by Ric Ocasek

Ocasek’s line moves like a late-night drive with the headlights half-working: forward motion powered by doubt. “Sometimes you want to run away, sometimes you think you do” catches the split-second between impulse and self-deception, the way restlessness can masquerade as bravery. He isn’t romanticizing escape; he’s naming the itchy uncertainty that makes leaving feel like an identity rather than a decision.

Then comes the emotional trapdoor: “you never had a dream like this before and you don't want to ask for more.” That’s the psychology of sudden luck, or sudden love, or sudden possibility - the fear that wanting too much will jinx it, that gratitude is a kind of insurance policy. The speaker doesn’t sound satisfied; he sounds superstitious. Desire is present, but it’s been trained to keep its voice down.

The last clause sharpens the stakes: “sometimes you leave a mark before you know the score.” It’s classic Ocasek: cool surface, anxious underneath. You act before you understand the game, make yourself memorable before you even know what you’re being measured against. In pop terms, that’s youth and ambition; in rock terms, it’s the band that hits, the relationship that burns bright, the persona you can’t quite take back. Contextually, it fits Ocasek’s New Wave knack for making clean, catchy language carry complicated feelings: the modern condition where momentum outruns comprehension, and your “mark” arrives ahead of your meaning.