Sara Evans Songs - If I Run Lyrics

Sara Evans - If I Run

Sara Evans - If I Run Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Slow Me Down
Released: 2014

If I Run Lyrics

You know they say that your first heartbreak
Can forever change the way you see love
But ask anyone who's had it broken more than once
They'll say it's twice as hard to get your heart to trust

So baby, can you tell me this
Can I count on all your promises
Are you gonna be the one that sticks

If I Run
Baby, will you chase me
Be the one who wants to save me
Never walk away no matter what
If I was lost
Would you come and find me
When I forget would you remind me
Who I am will always be enough
If I run
If I run

I don't wanna make you feel bad
Or make you pay for the past
I'm so sorry that sometimes
I get twisted up

I'm not saying that I doubt the way you feel
I'm not saying what you're saying isn't real
I just really wanna know the deal

If I run
Baby, will you chase me
Be the one who wants to save me
Never walk away no matter what
If I was lost
Would you come and find me
When I forget would you remind me
Who I am will always be enough
If I run
If I run

And if I'm broken
Feeling hopeless
I gotta know it
Really know it
Yeah, oh

If I run
Baby, will you chase me
Be the one who wants to save me
Never walk away no matter what
Oh, if I was lost
Would you come and find me
When I forget would you remind me
Who I am will always be enough
If I run
If I run
Baby, if I run
If I run

Writer/s: EVANS, SARA / ROCHELLE, KARYN / STEVENS, SHANE
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group, MAJOR BOB MUSIC, INC.
Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

If I Run

Evans wrote this ballad with Karyn Rochelle and Shane Stevens. Of the three Slow Me Down cuts penned by the singer, this is the most personal. "It's about this girl saying, 'I totally love you and I want this relationship, but I'm scared. I'm just letting you know that I have not been loved well in my life," she explained to Taste of Country . "So if I run, or if I get scared, will you chase me? Will you be the one that wants to save me?'"

"When we were writing … we were just talking about that fact that (when) little girls lose that relationship with their dad and they don't have a strong relationship with their dad throughout their teenage years and throughout their whole life, then they have this skewed sense of what love is," she continued. "And so they don't recognize love in the way that most girls do who have a strong father force in their life."

"Girls want to be pursued," Evans added. "So this song, is about being pursued and, you know, wanting that man to chase her and pursue her and let her know 'I would never let you walk away.'"

Sara Evans' husband, radio show host Jay Barker, calls this the "prodigal son song."