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Run Run Run

by Ryan Craven

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1.
Run, Run, Run The streets are empty So is my head No time for thought tonight I'm lost in the pattern of my own breath Summer coming to a close I've got miles behind me and miles to go For now just me and the lamp post These days I keep my goals so simple Run, Run, Run I don't know where All I know is my legs will take me there Run, Run, Run The streets are empty So is my bed No time for sleep tonight I'm lost in the pattern of my own steps, my own breath Run, Run, Run I don't know where All I know is my legs will take me there Run, Run, Run
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Fartlek 03:01
3.
Cross Country: The Song On your marks Get set Go Get out Get out, or get buried Eyes up Have your wits about you There's elbows flying, blood gushing from your knee I can't shoot no basketball I can't make no team at all I can't help if running away comes so natural 800 Two minutes and some number I can't ever really hear Truth be told, I miss the sounds Of even my own mother's cheers The only words that come through clear Coach screaming "Get your ass in gear!" And the middle miles Seem to float on by Til that time you decide On fight or flight And laugh when you realize They're really the same thing, right? I can't punt or pass worth a lick Catch me on the right day I've got one helluva kick Come to my home course I'll show ya first hand kid
4.
Song for a Childhood Hero Back when our lives ran parallel Back when I thought I knew me well Way before that last last lap bell Peter if you've changed, brother I can't tell Same as this road it all seems to stay the same If anything is different it's only in a subtle way Kinda like a tree after years of heavy rain Despite all your growth, something's constant with the way your branches hang Nostalgia hits and it's off to the races again Going side by side down a side street with an old friend Years removed Same groove We got the same roots Ain't it fun to pretend We're back in high school again Don't know when we all grew into men But I don't feel any different I know now it looks smaller at 17 The world wide open, all mine for the taking A boy and a dream, a track and a plan Don't you wish it could all be so simple again? Life to me is slow and oh so strange Who'd have known the man would outlive the last name More than anything, I think I miss the pain And sharing it with some boys who seemed just as crazy Ain't it fun to pretend We're back in high school again Don't know when we all grew into men But I don't feel any different
5.
Another Northern Winter Madison, early January The air is thin The streets sheeted white Not long now Til the sun goes down The city's vacant All the students on study break The landscape is a blanket From campus to Camp Randall From the forest to the frozen lake No one around See the air move, feel the wind howl All the summer trails you trotted down Have all but disappeared for now The Capitol sidewalk seems fair for this time of year I know this is just the start of another northern winter Sure someday spring will come Til then I'll keep this frozen air in my lungs Run around this isthmus I went home four days for Christmas Stare across Mendota The whole thing frozen over Lose the skyline in the peripheral swirl Of snow
6.
Ballad of the Injured Runner Monday morning I sprained my leg By Tuesday started to compensate and Strained my calf Imagine that Wednesday I was on the shelf By Thursday I'd regained some health Maybe Friday I can try to try again Laid up all weekend September started with pinched nerves October opened with a stress fracture My world's over Ice and Ibuprofen November got back on my horse First race back on my home course Wouldn't ya know? Tripped into a hole So they say it goes by all too fast Ya and someday soon the past is just the past It takes more than the biggest balls of brass For every run ya done, could've been your last Freshman year tending to tendonitis As a sophomore, succumbed by bouts of bronchitis Tell yourself "It's Okay, I'm only halfway" Junior june full of hundred mile weeks Senior sounds appropriate given the nature of my knees La di da da la di da da Ahh La da ahhh I will always recall my first real steps How alive I felt going head to head Neck and neck No love loss, but still respect When I'm too old to get around the track I can close my eyes and I'll be right back Shins aching, still every step worth taking So they say it goes by all too fast Ya and someday soon the past is just the past It takes more than the biggest balls of brass For every run ya done, could've been your last
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Looking Back 02:00
Looking Back No more mornings dreaming of what could have been No more of the stories you tell yourself so you can keep on sleeping in I'm done living life like that I'm done looking back No more of this will I won't I, should I shown't I shit When I make my move you can make your bet This time it's gonna stick The secret's the same as it always was Because the secret is There really isn't one Off I run Now I'm gone Time keeps moving on

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This album is the culmination of my two greatest passions in life: running and music. I realized running fans don't really have many songs that capture that which is so near and dear to them. Runners can identify with lyrics in Jackson Browne's "Running on Empty" or Tom Petty's "Running Down a Dream" or Springsteen's "Born to Run", but at the end of the day those songs really have nothing to do with the physical act of running. Feeling hopelessly nostalgic about my own athletic experience, I got to work crafting songs and scribbling lyrics.

Hope you enjoy my efforts and please share with your fellow runners.

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released December 5, 2013

Guitar/Vocals-Ryan Craven
Bass, Percussion-Matt Nischan
Violin-Hannah K Watson
Cello/Glockenspiel-Hillary Bauer

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