Run

Oh, my child 30 years today

You came into my life

And everything changed

If there's one thing I tried to teach you

Girl, don't you waste your time

Come this September

You'll be somebody's wife

I won't paint a picture

Of what you want to see

Love is the harder times

Take it from me

I would run down the lane

And into the night

Run so fast I swear my feet would fly

Run from my babies asleep in their beds

Run from my lover and my best friend

And back again

All of this courage

I've tried so hard to hold on to

Ever since that day

You and your brother left for school

They say just over that hill

The fog rolled in

Come quick doctor

We think somebody's been killed

I have been a healer

Of other people's pain

I know sometimes you don't like

The ways I've changed

But the smell of the world came into my lungs

The sound of the gravel when my legs went numb

And my heart nearly burst right out of my chest

And it felt so good to know I wasn't dead