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

my feet would fly

in their beds

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