Run Girl
Chasing Dreams: Embracing Farewell in 'Run Girl' by Payton Smith
Lyrics
Run girl
Encouraging the girl to run, suggesting a need for distance or change.
Til the come back sign in your rearview mirror starts fading
Encouraging her to run until signs of returning fade in the rearview mirror.
Run girl
Continuation of the encouragement for the girl to run.
Til the blacktop turns into catching those dreams that your chasing
Encouraging her to run until she achieves her dreams on the road.
If it's meant to be girl we gotta let it go
Suggesting that if a relationship is meant to end, they should let it go.
What happens after this baby who knows
Expressing uncertainty about what happens after the current situation.
I can't hold you back and I can't fence you in even though I know you that you're the one girl
Acknowledging the inability to hold the girl back despite recognizing her as "the one."
If this is goodbye then we fought that good fight and in the end neither one of us won girl
Reflecting on a good fight in the relationship, acknowledging no clear winner.
And what's best for you is best for me so if you're gonna leave
Stating that what's best for her is also best for him if she decides to leave.
Go on and run girl, run girl (run girl) (yeah)
Reiterating the encouragement for the girl to run.
Run Girl
Repeating the call for the girl to run.
If my memory catches up to ya down the road I'll see ya then
If they meet again, it would be down the road, suggesting separation.
Run girl
Encouraging her to explore and come back to potentially rekindle what they had.
See what ya gotta see come back and we can be what we could've been
Expressing hope for a reunion after she discovers what she needs to see.
I can't hold you back and I can't fence you in even though I know you that you're the one girl
Repeating the acknowledgment of the inability to hold her back.
If this is goodbye then we fought that good fight in the end neither one of us won girl
Reiterating the idea that the relationship had a good fight but no clear winner.
And what's best for you is best for me so if you're gonna leave
Stating that what's best for her is also best for him if she decides to leave.
Go on and run girl (woo)(ah ooh)
Reiterating the encouragement for the girl to run with added expressive sounds.
Wide open on a broken heart
Describing the emotional vulnerability of having an open and broken heart.
Yeah I guess this is the part
Recognizing that this is the difficult part of the relationship where she chooses to run.
Where you run girl
Explicitly mentioning the act of running.
Just run girl (yeah)
Encouraging her to run again with emphasis.
I can't hold you back and I can't fence you in even though I know you that you're the one girl
Repeating the acknowledgment of the inability to hold her back.
If this is goodbye then we fought that good fight in the end neither one of us won girl
Reiterating the idea that the relationship had a good fight but no clear winner.
And what's best for you is best for me so if you're gonna leave
Stating that what's best for her is also best for him if she decides to leave.
Run girl, run girl
Final call for the girl to run, emphasizing the action.
Go on and run girl
Repeating the encouragement for the girl to run.
Just run girl (Ooh)
Final emphasis on the instruction for the girl to run, concluding the song.
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