[03:13.00]Boats on the water and fish in the sea
[03:13.00]And your head full of visions of new liberty
[03:13.00]A seat on the greyhound, a case in your hand
[03:13.00]Leaving your family, you don’t understand
[03:13.00]That life can be hard on a kid breakaway
[03:13.00]She’s got no one to talk to and so much to say
[03:13.00]Bats in the belfry, the size of her fears
[03:13.00]And the ad’s on the T.V. ain’t what they appear
[03:13.00]Your papa is reeling from whisky and hurt
[03:13.00]And mama is wishing she’d bought you that skirt
[03:13.00]You know there’s no Eldorado in sorrowful flight
[03:13.00]And no Disney posters to tell you goodnight
[03:13.00]So sing it ah, ah she’s the kid runaway
[03:13.00]The lord knows the reasons he’d please us to say
[03:13.00]So sing it ah, ah won’t you keep her from pain
[03:13.00]And we’ll put all the pieces together again
[03:13.00]Her hair in a tangle her life in a mess
[03:13.00]And the freeway patrolman he don’t have to guess
[03:13.00]And so he buys her a coffee and calls on the phone
[03:13.00]We’ve got somebody’s daughter but never your own
[03:13.00]You know there’s kid’s on the highway
[03:13.00]There’s kid’s on the run but they end in the alley
[03:13.00]When all’s said and done
[03:13.00]So sing it ah, ah she’s the kid runaway
[03:13.00]And the lord only knows why she did what she did
[03:13.00]So sing it ah, ah won’t you keep her from pain
[03:13.00]And we’ll put all the pieces together again
[03:13.00]Ah, ah she’s the kid runaway
[03:13.00]The lord knows the reasons he’d please us to say
[03:13.00]So sing it ah, ah won’t you keep her from pain
[03:13.00]And we’ll put all the pieces together again
[03:13.00]Ah, ah if you see her please say
[03:13.00]That her family is missing the kid runaway.