Gene Mills, guitar and lead vocals
Gayla Mills, bass and harmony vocals
Corey Evans, drums
Recorded/mixed by Bill McElroy at Slipped Disc
Lyrics
Run Away Like Water
© Gene Mills 2019
Today’s the day you’re leaving
You’re not leaving town
That’s why I’m packing up my bags
Cause I can’t stick around
I don’t want you to see me
as I slowly fall apart
So I’m losing my deposit
Gassing up my car
Chorus:
I’ll run away like water
Downhill all the way
Falling till there’s no place left to fall
and there I’ll stay
I guess I’ll keep on breathing
Trudging through the days
As I run away like water
Downhill all the way
I’m driving west on 40
Past Ozone, Tennessee
I might keep on driving till I
Drive into the sea
I might stop and stay awhile
If I can only find
A roadhouse in some dusty town
Clearly in decline
Chorus
A box of pictures next to me
Letters that you wrote
I don’t have to read them
I know them all by rote
When I reach the Mississippi
I’ll throw the damn thing in
That’s the lie I tell myself
But I’m not taken in.
Chorus