Strong-heartfelt ballad about teenage runaways
Southern California song writer.
Story behind the song
Almost everyone know of a child age 12 to 17 or so, who tries to escape rules and values of parents and/or follows "peer" pied pipers to skip or drop out of school and get involved with drugs, and other harmful activity.
Lyrics
2010, 9-11 rev, All rights reserved, by Doug Buche,
1st Verse:
When he was a five year old he liked to run away.
Then when he found he was lost, cry until he saw my face.
Now he's ten years older, wants to be on his own,
Doesn't know that he is lost. He forgot the way home.
Chorus:
He's running with his freedom, doesn't think he needs me, running on the edge of doom.
It's not like we're gonna catch him. Never gonna reach him. He follows a pied piper's tune.
Rules he'd made to break em. He's never going to take em..
He thinks that they belong to someone else.
2nd Verse:
I can not stop worrying about a future, I can't see.
For a child I once held so tight, and so very close to me.
He thinks he knows everything, but he doesn't know the dangers.
And when he stays away so long, he becomes a stranger.
Chorus:
He's running with his freedom, doesn't think he needs me, running on the edge of doom.
It's not like we're gonna catch him. Never gonna reach him. He follows a pied piper's tune.
Rules he'd made to break em. He's never going to take em..
He thinks that they belong to someone else.
Bridge to ending:
He's running with his freedom, doesn't think he needs me, running on the edge of doom.
I pray to God we're gonna catch him, that we can still reach him.
Lord let him be my prodigal son.
