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 killing 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"
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 killing 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"