Ever since I was a little kid

I have always thought

I could run faster than the wind

Stare up to the sky with open spaces

I could live and die

Man you can't find that in no book

You never find that in no book

Someone will drag you down

And try to knock you under

Hey mama said with her words of wonder

Don't matter cause, cause it's in your soul



(I have always felt

That I had to prove it to myself)

No salvation from the firin' line

(A million dreams won't set you free)

God I know there's something trapped in me

There's no refuge from the ride

No shelter ever saved a man his pride

(Give you pain and never feed you hunger

I won't close my eyes when it rain and thunders)

Don't matter cause, cause it's in your soul



(And when the night is overcome

And I've been racin' down a road

That's got no trace, no face

If I could live by the words I've sung

And carry all the choices I've made)

I swear, I swear I'll be there



'O no no, na na

Hey mister don't shadow box with me

'Cause I don't wanna someday be

An old man cursin' what I might have been

Now I realize what I see

That the wind was never chasin' me

And I don't feel so alone

I can close my eyes I'm goin' home



(Behind the clouds the sun is shinin'

Some rain will fall no use in cryin')

'O no

'O no not me

(Got a picture in my head that won't let go of)

Young man running in search of

Count your blessings

'Cause it's in your soul

'O it's in your soul

[Soul]

In your soul

'O no

[In your soul]

Ever since I was a little kid

I have always thought

[Ah he always thought]

Young man running

[Always thought]

Keep on running - and a running - and a running

Keep on running

[Ah