I've been called a runner
I always leave my place
Racing to another
Another town, another face
The road's become my lover
Gasoline fuels my soul
And i came back to your town
I'd just as quickly go
So don't you rely on me
'cause i won't be there for you
No woman i've found can slow me down
And i'll die before i do
The day i left my mother
My hands were smooth and small
She warned me then about my ways
But her words i can't recall
It was something about running
And k**ing of my pride
Don't think of it that often
I never made the time
So don't you rely on me
'cause i won't be there for you
No woman i've found can slow me down
And i'll die before i do
They found me in the gutter
Off the highway seventeen
I was going back to my hometown
When i slipped into a dream
I was lying by my mother's side
When these words she spoke to me
"from the ground the nest cannot be found
By a bird with a broken wing"