Oh, my child 30 years today
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You came into my life
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And everything changed
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If there's one thing I tried to teach you
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Girl, don't you waste your time
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Come this September
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You'll be somebody's wife
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I won't paint a picture
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Of what you want to see
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Love is the harder times
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Take it from me
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I would run down the lane
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And into the night
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Run so fast I swear my feet would fly
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Run from my babies asleep in their beds
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Run from my lover and my best friend
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And back again
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All of this courage
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I've tried so hard to hold on to
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Ever since that day
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You and your brother left for school
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They say just over that hill
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The fog rolled in
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Come quick doctor
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We think somebody's been killed
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I have been a healer
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Of other people's pain
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I know sometimes you don't like
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The ways i've changed
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But the smell of the world came into my lungs
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The sound of the gravel when my legs went numb
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And my heart nearly burst right out of my chest
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And it felt so good to know I wasn't dead
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Run
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| Kathleen Edwards |
