Oh my child

Thirty years today

You came into my life

And everything changed

If there's one thing I tried to teach you

Girl, don't you waste your time

Come this September

You'll be somebody's wife

And your column will paint a picture

Of what you want to see

'Cause love is the harder times

Take it from me

I 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 again

And all of the courage

I tried so hard to hold on to

Ever since that day

You and your brother left for school

They say just over that hill

The fog rolled in

And come quick doctor

They think somebody's been killed

And I have been a healer of other people's pain

Yeah, I know sometimes you don't like the ways I've changed

But the smell of the world came into my lungs

The sound of gravel when my legs went numb

And my heart nearly burst right out of my chest

Felt so good to know I wasn't dead

I 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