| Ever since I was a little kid
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| I have always thought
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| I could run faster than the wind
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| Stare up to the sky with open spaces
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| I could live and die
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| Man you can’t find that in no book
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| You never find that in no book
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| Someone will drag you down
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| And try to knock you under
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| Hey mama said with her words of wonder
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| Don’t matter cause, cause it’s in your soul
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| (I have always felt
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| That I had to prove it to myself)
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| No salvation from the firin’line
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| (A million dreams won’t set you free)
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| God I know there’s something trapped in me There’s no refuge from the ride
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| No shelter ever saved a man his pride
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| (Give you pain and never feed you hunger
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| I won’t close my eyes when it rain and thunders)
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| Don’t matter cause, cause it’s in your soul
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| (And when the night is overcome
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| And I’ve been racin’down a road
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| That’s got no trace, no face
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| If I could live by the words I’ve sung
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| And carry all the choices I’ve made)
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| I swear, I swear I’ll be there
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| 'O no no, na na Hey mister don’t shadow box with me
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| 'Cause I don’t wanna someday be An old man cursin’what I might have been
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| Now I realize what I see
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| That the wind was never chasin’me
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| And I don’t feel so alone
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| I can close my eyes I’m goin’home
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| (Behind the clouds the sun is shinin'
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| Some rain will fall no use in cryin')
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| 'O no
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| 'O no not me
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| (Got a picture in my head that won’t let go of)
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| Young man running in search of Count your blessings
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| 'Cause it’s in your soul
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| 'O it’s in your soul
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| In your soul
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| 'O no Ever since I was a little kid
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| I have always thought
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| Young man running
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| Keep on running — and a running — and a running
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| Keep on running |