Run, Run Away

I said Mississippi

Said she didn’t want to go

Wondered why it seemed so hard

For her to go back home


It was the place she talked of

Placed that she once dreamed

I said ‘take me to see’

Another part of your history


Didn’t understand the fight

The struggle to show

Did she even want me

To really ever know?


‘It’s not the same without my kids’

I said, there’ll be other times

Why the hell couldn’t she

Realize that before her eyes


Was someone who truly wanted to know

That learning about her grandpa and her family

Just might help my love grow


So we went

But it was hard

She got sick

As if it was wrong

For me to be a part


 - - - - -


I’d have driven to Missouri

To see her brother’s world

She said it was important

I said I understood


But she decided to run away there

Without me

December 31st

Why couldn’t she see?


Just talk

To me

I’m not the asshole

Who’d taken 

All her dreams


I spent new years

Looking at the clock

Still amazed that I was alone

Guess I was in shock


Run away

Oh, Run away

From me


Run away

Oh, Run away

From me


I sit in the quiet

Why the hell would I want to trust?

Anyone else

After she blew me up


Cause they’ll…


Run away

Oh, Run away

From me


Run

Run away


From me.


01/20/25

clc



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