Running Free

(album: Running Free - 1977)

When I was younger
I thought that life was fine
I drank down my share
Like a savage, drinking wine

Now strange paranoia's my game
Evil that's my name
I have found that whatever goes down
Comes round and back again

And when I was younger
Mama said love was mine
I misused it, I abused it
Used up all my time
Now my days are like strange poetry
Nothing seems to rhyme

Ain't it strange, ain't it strange
Don't it change, don't it change
I've been out

Running free, running free, running free, running free
Running free, running free, running free, running free (Running, running, running)

Running free, running free, running free, running free
Running free, running free, running free, running free (Running, running, running)

I hope you understand it
But it makes no sense to me
All the time that I have wasted
When I could have been running free
All things that I never tasted
Things I could never ever see, yeah

Running free, yeah
All the time I have wasted

Running free, running free
I never went out walking
I stayed at home talking
My feet by the fire like a natural born liar
A cheater and a whiner
I should have gone when I wanted to go to China
I should have gone to China
And I know