Running Deer

I promised you if you'd love me

That I'd never ever go

Want you to know now that I meant that

Just didn't know they'd need me so

My body's here in the city

But my soul is back at home

My people need my education

Pleading eyes won't leave my head alone

So this is Running Deer running

To the home I left behind

This is running deer running

Before I run out of my mind

I told you bout the reservation

And the way that I was raised

How my family never had much

Well now I've got some debts to pay

You were born here in the city

You've seen the hunger and the pain

My people lived like that for centuries

That's what I have got to try and change