I composed this song in 2004 after learning that my best friend had been killed in Ramadi, Iraq. “Dennis J. Miller, 21, was killed Wednesday in Ramadi when a rocket propelled grenade hit his M1A1 Abrams tank, the Pentagon said.“
When I was a child my momma used to say
Don’t you ever let them see you run away,
I tried to obey the words she said that day
But now I’m running and I just can’t get away.
My father drifted away my mother’s dead and gone
My sister died of shame my brother never came home,
I’ve been running so long I just can’t run no more
Lord I’ve been running since the day that I was born.
I know that thieves can steal I know that liars can lie
I guess that I’ll be a fool until the day I die,
I’ve seen more hard times than I would care to count
I know that nobody knows you when you’re down and out.
Lord I never thought that I would live this long
And I never thought that I would be this strong,
I hear the voice of an angel singing my last song
Lord I never thought that I would live this long.
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