Lyrics:<br /><br />The Reason I Ran Away<br /><br />They told me always be proud of where you are from<br />And that family is what’s most important<br />They told me always be proud of where you come from<br />But there was an obvious reason that I ran away<br /><br />There’s a long-winded preacher at the pulpit unfolding his art<br />He has everything sorted on a single chart<br />The crowd jeered when he forgot the names<br />Of the bride and groom in the front<br />And he’d brought his easel and paints as a stunt<br />He passed around the plate to collect everyone’s blames<br /><br />They told me always be proud of where you are from<br />And that family is what’s most important<br />They told me always be proud of where you come from<br />But there was an obvious reason that I ran away<br /><br />The bride bothered to set up the microphone<br />At first everyone there began to groan<br />But when she began to sing all of her vows<br />Her frustration turned into ugly tears<br />As the audience laughed at the worst performance in years<br />She wondered if her husband was worth plucking her eyebrows<br /><br />They told me always be proud of where you are from<br />And that family is what’s most important<br />They told me always be proud of where you come from<br />But there was an obvious reason that I ran away<br /><br />He kept the car of the future at my home<br />Under the carport flaked off the chrome<br />Every twenty years he’d come to see if it would start<br />I saw him slinging hooks into the eyes of fish<br />He said he had to go back to work on Tuesday<br />He didn’t know what day it was to collect his pay<br />His back always hurt from when he tried to fix the dish<br /><br />They told me always be proud of where you are from<br />And that family is what’s most important<br />They told me always be proud of where you come from<br />But there was an obvious reason that I ran away<br /><br />When I showed up I was asked if I packed my bed<br />I couldn’t remember and felt the dread <br />As the truck pulled in driven by two girls<br />Who now didn’t have a ride and mocked<br />My embarrassing choice of headgear and was shocked<br />That there was a magnet at the gift shop representing their earls<br /><br />They told me always be proud of where you are from<br />And that family is what’s most important<br />They told me always be proud of where you come from<br />But there was an obvious reason that I ran away<br />
