(Kathy Korniloff)  Eleven years old when Janis Joplin died  It was a time in her life full of feminine pride  A Wrinkle in Time and The Wind in the Willows  Hiding behind the summer clothes that billowed  On the line  With a head full of music and playful heart  With her two best friends you couldn't tear them apart  Reading notes and measures and Harriet the Spy  King of the mountain and a big blue sky  So open wide  Running like a girl  You go sailing past my window chased by tracers of the sun  Running like a girl  Meet me in the underbrush remember solid ground we touched  In our forested fortresses  Growing up fast on the edge of a storm  There was a peace to keep, a job to perform  Learning well how to settle into so polite  Quietly there by a TV light  So close inside  Proud and stoic with a sense of duty  No one there to notice her developing beauty  if they could have listened there was no mistaking  The dissonent sound of a young heart breaking  Open wide  Watching girlfriends lining up one by one  To pledge allegiance to the women they would soon become  They all quit sports and got a D in math  And you began to follow a narrow path  Once open wide  Running like a girl  You go sailing past my window blazing trails against the wind  Out into this world  Finding out about your difference I will give you love's assistance  Now that I am aware of you  I was stranded outside and I couldn't speak  Needed a soothing brain balm just to get through the week  I was feeling amputated from my neck to my shoes  And the gulf between my voice and my heart was ooh  So far and wide  When I woke from this dream I was thinking of you  How you've always known just what to do  With your skinny brown legs and your face to the sun  Nothing you've known has ever come undone  Heart open wide  Running like a girl  Tearing up my neighborhood under a big blue sky  Running like a girl  Meet me in the underbrush remember solid ground we touched