I'm On The Run
Janice Marie
I've been running since the holler learned my name
Barefoot prayers, karma humming in my veins
Small-town eyes, they remember every sin
But they never saw the fire I was carrying in
Mama said: Hush, God said: Listen close
Some folks kneel, some folks run, guess I chose both
Got a past like a shadow at the edge of the trees
Every mile marker whispering secrets to me
I ain't running from the truth, I'm running toward my bread
Trying to outpace fate without outrunning myself
I'm on the run, yeah, but I ain't lost
Just chasing freedom, paying old cost
Backroads know me, lose my good
If loving hearts a crime, I'm already done
I'm on the run, heart still young
Faith in my pockets, scars in my lung
Twin souls split roles, mirrors in the dark
Everybody swore they knew me from the start
But they don't know the nights I held the sky together
Or how an empath bleeds in stormy weather
Jailhouse prayers, commissary dreams
Hope tastes different when you know what it means
Every lie I ever told was just fear in a coat
Every truth I ever spoke was a hole in a boat
But I learned how to swim when the river said prove it
A woman on the run learns how to move it
I'm on the run, yeah, but I ain't wrong
I've been surviving since before this song
Dust on my jeans, Sun on my tongue
Still believe in love, still believe in one
I'm on the run, don't need a gun
Karma's a wheel, I'll push it uphill
If God's got a plan, I'm questioning still
Not 'cause I doubt, but 'cause I care
Blind faith never took me anywhere
I'm on the run, just long enough to heal
Long enough to learn what's fake and what's real
Call me reckless, call me sprung
But history remembers the ones who run
So if you hear my name on the midnight wind
Don't call the law, just call me friend
I ain't hiding, I ain't done
I'm just a Tennessee stone still on the run