Runnin Just In Case

        G                                                     C
There's trouble where I'm going but I'm gonna go there anyway
D                                                                G
I hate sunday mornings 'cause they always seem to start this way
    G                                                      C
I'm looking for a lighter, I already bought the cigarettes
        D                                               G
Guess I picked me up a habit on my way out of Lafayette
G                                                              C
Eastbound and down, I turn it up 'cause that's sure how I feel
           D                                                                  G
My mind is racing through the pines, my hands are shaky on the steering wheel
          G                                                      C
I'm going north on 59 but I know good and well, I'm headed south
       D                                                     G
'Cause me and Birmingham don't have a history of working out

[Chorus]
       C
What I lost in Louisiana I found back in Alabama
                                 Em
But nobody ever taught me how to stay
         G                    D                          G
It ain't love that I'm chasing but I'm running just in case

[Verse 2]
  G                                                                 C
I ain't unpacked my suitcase since the day that I turned twenty one
     D                                                               G
It's been a long ten years since then, it's getting kinda cumbersome
    G                                                                C
The first one and the last one and the one that's got my name in ink
    D                                                       G
The smoker and the fighter and the one in every song I sing

[Chorus]
       C
What I lost in Lubbock, Texas, I looked for in all the rest
                                         Em
But I guess no one ever taught me how to stay
         G                    D                          G
It ain't love that I'm chasing but I'm running just in case

[Instrumental]
C Em C D

[Otro]
  G                                                     C
I carried him around with me, I don't mind having scars
D                                                            G
Happiness ain't prison but there's freedom in a broken heart