[VRWCmember]

You’ve got to start with the beginning of the song as only Dennis DeYoung could sing it:

I’m sailing away
Set an open course for the virgin sea
For I’ve got to be free
Free to face the life that’s ahead of me
On board I’m the captain
So climb aboard
We’ll search for tomorrow
On every shore
And I’ll try, oh Lord, I’ll try
To carry on

[xsmommy]

i like this one best

Oh mama I’m in fear for my life from the long arm of the law. Lawman has put an end to my running and I’m so far from my home. Oh mama I can hear you a crying, your so scared and all alone. Hangman is coming down from the gallows and I don’t have very long

[SoothingDave]

When I was 10, this song didn't make a lot of sense to me:

Eddie, now don't you run
You know you're a bootlegger's son
And you saw just what it's done to the others
Eddie, now don't you run
It's the end of all your fun
And you saw just what they've done
To your brothers