[Verse 1] I got my uncle's old Bible in the glove compartment and a half-paid slip for rent on the passenger seat Mama said, "Boy, when He taps your shoulder, don't make Him wait in the heat" But I been duckin' down side roads, hands on the wheel too tight whole block know my name, still I hide from the light I hear that Sunday drum in my ribs when the night gets loud and I keep on swervin' past the place where my knees go down [Chorus] I been running, running, running from my calling, Lord running, running, running, but You keep on calling, Lord Oh, I can't outrun that song it keeps on singing me home I been running, running, running from my calling, Lord [Verse 2] The street signs melt soft when the rain lays low my thoughts float slow like smoke through a screen door Mama's voice comes blurred through the flood in my mind saying, "Child, that grace still waits on the other side" I see my own face in the glass of a store front door lookin' tired, lookin' lost, lookin' like I was before and the road beneath me turns to water, wide and deep but that holy voice still moves right through me while I sleep [Chorus] I been running, running, running from my calling, Lord running, running, running, but You keep on calling, Lord Oh, I can't outrun that song it keeps on singing me home I been running, running, running from my calling, Lord [Bridge] If I turn around, will You still know my name? If I fall apart, will You meet me in the shame? I tried my best to be a man built out of stone but the hardest thing I ever did was coming back home [Chorus] I been running, running, running from my calling, Lord running, running, running, but You keep on calling, Lord Oh, I can't outrun that song it keeps on singing me home I been running, running, running from my calling, Lord
