Joe Purdy - Runaway Children lyrics
[Joe Purdy - Runaway Children lyrics]
I was born an only child
On a warm Jersey night
My mother was a dressmaker
My father drove a truck
My family never was much good
When it came to money-luckno
Me and my best friend took to stealing
When we were only 16
And one year in the county jail
Made a man out of Tommy and me
We caught the train to New York
We thought we were so tough
We started fighting for quick cash
We decided we didn't need the money that bad
We were the runaway children
Always lost in the dark
Trying to forget where we came from
Trying to make a new start
Oh, but it was so hard
Earned my first honest dollar
Workin' at the mill outside of town
Tommy went elsewhere
Never did like the sound of a poor man cryin'
Tommy got mixed up with people
The kind of people you just
Don't get mixed up with
And they beat him so bad, he
He almost didn't live to regret itbut he did
Uh, thank God he did
We were the runaway children
Still lost in the dark
Trying to forget where we came from
Trying to make a new start
Oh, but it was so hardso
Hardit was just so hard
But Tommy moved eight years ago
Out to Las Vegas
Now he sweeps the floors in the casinos
Oh, and he gambles when he's able
When will he ever learn?
When will he ever learn?
And me, I went back home
Oh, and I made it just in time
To say I'm sorry for what I'd done
Right before my mother died
Now I drive a truck
Just like I swore I never would
But, I need the money worse
Than I need the luck
I know my old man just did the best
That he could with what he had
It's funny the things we finally
Learn how to have of
We were just runaway children
Lost in the dark
Trying to forget where we came from
Oh but we never
We never made it that farnever
Made it that far
Oh, but it's still so hardit's still so hard
On a warm Jersey night
My mother was a dressmaker
My father drove a truck
My family never was much good
When it came to money-luckno
Me and my best friend took to stealing
When we were only 16
And one year in the county jail
Made a man out of Tommy and me
We caught the train to New York
We thought we were so tough
We started fighting for quick cash
We decided we didn't need the money that bad
We were the runaway children
Always lost in the dark
Trying to forget where we came from
Trying to make a new start
Oh, but it was so hard
Earned my first honest dollar
Workin' at the mill outside of town
Tommy went elsewhere
Never did like the sound of a poor man cryin'
Tommy got mixed up with people
The kind of people you just
Don't get mixed up with
And they beat him so bad, he
He almost didn't live to regret itbut he did
Uh, thank God he did
We were the runaway children
Still lost in the dark
Trying to forget where we came from
Trying to make a new start
Oh, but it was so hardso
Hardit was just so hard
But Tommy moved eight years ago
Out to Las Vegas
Now he sweeps the floors in the casinos
Oh, and he gambles when he's able
When will he ever learn?
When will he ever learn?
And me, I went back home
Oh, and I made it just in time
To say I'm sorry for what I'd done
Right before my mother died
Now I drive a truck
Just like I swore I never would
But, I need the money worse
Than I need the luck
I know my old man just did the best
That he could with what he had
It's funny the things we finally
Learn how to have of
We were just runaway children
Lost in the dark
Trying to forget where we came from
Oh but we never
We never made it that farnever
Made it that far
Oh, but it's still so hardit's still so hard