1st Place Winner, September/October 2014 Contest: “Reasons To Run”

1st Place
“Reasons To Run”
Brittany Hadley
Nashville, Tennessee

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Click here to read Brittany’s Lyric Contest Spotlight Q&A.

I’ve got one good man and one hundred good
Reasons to run
I doubled knotted these stiches ‘cause my
Heart kept coming undone
Too many times before I’ve been left alone to
Clean up the mess
I should give him a chance but chances are
He’s just like the rest

So I run ‘cause I’m afraid
That if I stay, I’ll stay too long
Yeah, I run because it’s easy
He can’t leave me if I’m already gone
I can name one hundred reasons
But when the day is done
I’m just running, I’m running out
Of reasons to run

He keeps on knocking but I just keep locking
The door
He brings me roses but I leave them out to die
On the porch
He keeps waiting for me on the other side of
My walls
Only held together by excuses why I won’t let
Them fall

Yeah I run ‘cause I’m afraid
That if I stay, I’ll stay too long
Yeah I run because it’s easy
He can’t leave me if I’m already gone
I can name one hundred reasons
But when the day is done
I’m just running, yeah I’m running out
Of reasons to run

The lies I’ve been telling myself, they’re all
Getting me nowhere
Now I realize, wherever he is, oh, I want to be
There

I won’t run, I’m not afraid
I want to stay, stay too long
I won’t run just ‘cause it’s easy
He can’t love me if I’m already gone
I named one hundred reasons
That added up to none
And I’m done running, ‘cause I’ve run out
Of reasons to run yeah

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