Free as a Child

She cuts a path through the dust on the table
In the shape of the heart of the man she once knew
He’s out on the town he's out with the boys
He's out at the bar
He's been sleeping around
and he’s drowning in booze

She stares at the wall it’s that man she once knew
Hanging slightly askew and quite faded
It’s been twenty years and a million tears
Since he laid down that promise and made it
Now all her sweet dreams are jaded

She’s all alone she’s got nothing to lose
But these worn out old floors and a bad case of the blues
And a man that would leave her there all alone
Amid the bones of the home that she made him

She needs a cigarette bad he smoked the last one she had
And damn it if he thinks she’s staying

She cuts a path to the moon driving through the midnight blue
Mountain air blows her hair she feels wild
And she ain’t looking back to that broken down shack
She’s running as free as a child

By the light of the moon she’s just belting out the tunes
Mountain air blows her hair back into style
And she ain’t looking back to that broken down shack
She’s running as free as a child
Living as free as a child
Flying as free as a child
She’ll be dying as free as a child