Running Alone

(album: Street Talk - 1984)

Looking down I watch the night
Running from the sun
Orphan stars and city lights
Fading one by one
Oh, sweet memories
I call on you now

Two too many hearts been broken
Along this lonely road
Steel grey eyes can shine the lies
Until they look like gold
Cold city sidewalks can turn your heart to stone
The street won't defeat me
Cause I've got the will, I'll survive
I don't mind running alone

I believe that every soul
Has a song to sing
The spirit's locked in every man
Waiting for a wing
Oh, so much is wasted
And oh, so little used
The trick of the dreamer
Is keeping yourself from the blues
And I don't mind running

Everyone's a hero
If you want to be
Everyone's a prisoner
Holding their own key
And every step I take
And every move I make
Always one step closer
I don't mind running alone

Laughing children echo down
The concrete alleyways
Oh, their voices
Calling, calling, calling yesterday
Oh, sweet memories
Returning to me now
When young eyes saw clearly

Everyone's a hero
If you want to be
Everyone's a prisoner
Holding their own key
And every step I take
And every move I make
Always one step closer
I don't mind running alone