26 miles

Lyrics to a song I wrote and hope to record....

Thirty years ago, I saw it on TV

When he dipped his foot, right into the sea

He was just a boy, acting like a man

Escorted out of town, by a yellow van

I’ll tell you what it means, to be all alone

A lonely West Coast boy, three thousand miles from home

30 days of rain, all along the way

26 miles he ran, each and every day

Chorus

What I didn’t know

What no one dared to say

He might not make it

Might not make it to Thunder Bay

Sometime in July, on highway sixty nine

Headed up to Timmins, when we passed him by

Collecting money, from beside the van

I reached out the window, threw a dollar in the can

Chorus

I still see him now, always on the run

A forever memory, forever twenty one

Heroes don’t come easy, it takes a lot of might

They sometimes win the battle, and sometimes lose the fight

What I didn’t know

What no one dared to say

He never made it

Never made it past halfway

(But the)The whole world knows your name today