Oh, my child 30 years today
You came into my life
And everything changedIf there's one thing I tried to teach you
Girl, don't you waste your time
Come this September
You'll be somebody's wifeI won't paint a picture
Of what you wanna see
'Cause love is the harder times
Take it from meI 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 againAnd all of the courage
I've tried so hard to hold on to
Ever since that day
You and your brother left for schoolThey say just over that hill
The fog rolled in
Come quick doctor
We think somebody's been killedI have been a healer
Of other people's pain
Yeah, I know sometimes you don't like
The ways I've changedBut 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
It felt so good to know I wasn't deadI 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, back again, back again