A simple song about my other addiction besides music…..

Just a small kid 
Quiet and unseen
Though I wanted 
Didn’t make it to the team 
At school they’d tell me
you’re too short for sport 
Bloody rugby 
And games of that sort
But I could run!
I could run! 

Dog in race trap 
Wound up little spring 
Want to start laps
Got to do my thing
These teens won’t play
There’s screens and there’s strife 
Got to get away 
From chores and my life 

Run! (I want to)
Run! (I got to)
Run! (I need to) 
Want to, got to, need to run!

Take your tech gym 
Machines don’t appeal 
Ain’t even stepped in 
Those hamster wheels 
I stride to the sticks 
With fast upbeat hits 
Got to get a fix
I’m a muddy wind addict 

Run! (I want to)
Run! (I got to)
Run! (I need to) 
Want to, got to, need to run!

Best be sweating 
Every Saturday
Beats regretting
What you drank Friday
Don’t care about no race
Or if you beat me 
It’s all about my pace 
My own PB
My knees are kaput 
I’m told get a bike 
Don’t want a sore butt 
Or padded tights 
Feel the need to share 
My stats my splits
But I bet you don’t care
It would bore you to bits 

Run! (I want to)
Run! (I got to)
Run! (I need to) 
Want to, got to, need to run!
Want to, got to, need to run!

Run! (I want to)
Run! (I got to)
Run! (I need to)
Want to, got to, need to run!
I got to run!
Just run!
Run!
Run!
Run!
Run!

Run!

mom and dad gave their very best 
post rounds, play grounds, at desks
didn’t own a video to watch ET
didn’t own a hoody coat that said nike
or a soda stream or mr frosty 

childhood
why did I want more?
childhood
I really had it all 
they push started me 
my A reg family 

dad used bits of biscuit tinny
to patch the holes in his mini
While friends jet away on foreign holidays 
mustard mini on moody motorways
four and our gran and our cat in rear place 

we do our best we’re busy bees
factory floors,  on the wards, glossy screens
they get the funkiest pumps and the coolest coats
and gadgets and games and streaming videos
all they think they’ll need wherever they go 	

(**This song is about all the stuff I wanted as a child of the 80s and never got…..like a video recorder, soda stream, mr frosty and a newer car than our tiny family Mini. Not realising at the time of course that I already had everything I needed 😄)

Childhood

budding song writer, down stream from Oxford

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