I Told Him That My Dog Wouldn't Run Songtext
von Patty Larkin

I told him that my dog wouldn′t run
I told him that I loved someone
Yeah, that's my old car out in the parking lot
I saw him when he first walked in
I thought it was a vision of him
He was looking like where he had been
Looking kind of fragile

He said, "I read the Bible every day
Trying to keep the demons at bay
Thank God when the sun goes down
I don′t blow away"

My friend said, "Was he always like that?"
I said, "Yeah, but he was never this bad"
And I remember us playing for nickels and dimes
Out on the corner
I asked him to marry me once
He told me he couldn't because
This would be all that there was


He said, "I read the Bible every day
Trying to keep the demons at bay
Thank God when the sun goes down
I don't blow away"

He was laughing but I didn′t get the joke
He was dying to light up a smoke
And I wanted to cry in the fluorescent light
Of the restaurant
I smiled and I got up to go
I was hoping for a goodbye to hold
But it was kind of like touching a ghost
So I ran when I walked out

He said, "I read the Bible every day
Trying to keep the demons at bay
Thank God when the sun goes down
I don′t blow away"

I got in my car and I drove
Over the bridge to the coast
Wondering where does old love go