I promised you if you'd love me That I'd never ever go Want you to know now that I meant that Just didn't know they'd need me so My body's here in the city But my soul is back at home My people need my education Pleading eyes won't leave my head alone. So this is Running Deer running To the home I left behind This is running deer running Before I run out of my mind. I told you bout the reservation And the way that I was raised How my family never had much Well now I've got some debts to pay You were born here in the city You've seen the hunger and the pain My people lived like that for centuries That's what I have got to try and change.