Mike Lawrence: Music

• MP3 short clip, hi-fi play (broadband)
• MP3 short clip, lo-fi play (modem)

Six years old
He knows he's not quite the same as the others
He can't race to the bus stop
Like his neighbor and his brother

There's another bus just around the bend
When it pulls up, his mother helps him in
He smiles, she smiles
She prays somehow, some way

(Chorus)
He's gonna run someday
He's gonna spread his wings and fly
Climb on a mountain high
Have his day in the sun
Yea, he's gonna run

Life ain't fair
But years of prayer and five operations
Got him to the podium at his high school graduation

He makes a stand, diploma in his hand
The braces on his legs ain't stopped him yet
He smiles, they smile
They look at him as if to say

(Chorus)

He left more than braces far behind last week
He showed us how to have faith and to believe

He fought the fight of his life
And in the moment he broke free
He smiled his smile as he let go of life and said

I'm gonna run today
I'm gonna spread my wings and fly
Climb on the mountain high
See the face of the Son
Yea, I'm gonna run

I'm gonna run
I'm gonna run
He's gonna run