She's Runnin' Away - Tim O'Brien

When you look out your window and see her runnin away

You start addin things up, how you let her down

Now she’s makin you pay, by runnin away

It’s just like some movie, one you’ve already seen

You’re playin the part of the guy all alone up there on the screen

You know what that means

Your sight’s twenty 'cause you’re lookin behind

You only wish you had thought of some thing you could do

To ease her mind, instead what you find is her runnin away

Bury me in a lonesome valley

So I can feel the sun goin up and down

And I can hear that old river rollin

And the cryin wind is the only sound

It takes a whole lifetime to learn how to live

To know when it’s time to stop takin

And learn you’ve got something to give, that’s how to live

But that’s not my story and I’m here all alone

The only thing left is the sound of this house

And me pacin alone, there’s nobody home, and she’s runnin away

Bury me in a lonesome valley

So I can feel the sun goin up and down

And I can hear that old river rollin

And the cryin wind is the only sound