A hot summer night   I was countin' all the starlight on your skin   Airtight   Is I watched you breathin' out an' breathin' in      By the lake   So humid that the moon was gettin' wet   For our sake   The crickets started playin' their castanets      Like a gypsy   You stole me from a child into a man   It never hit me   I've been runnin' ever since I took a stand      And this love   Like a Spanish moss hangin from the trees   And just swayin' in the breeze   Like a sweet memory      Runnin' straight outta time   Straight outta time   I'm runnin' straight outta time   Straight outta time   Since you were mine      An that autumn chill   Sent a shiver, girl, it shook us to the bone   And we still   Had February frozen on the phone      Spring thaw   Would it find us with our lips frozen blue?   Well love calls   But do we really live the time we're runnin' through?      Or like a dream   Do we let it die and drift away to sleep?   Until it screams   Like an echo in the history books you keep      'Cause that stream   Runnin' from the corners of my mind   Well lookin' back I find   Ah like a river it unwinds      I'm runnin' straight outta time   Straight outta time   I'm runnin' straight outta time   Straight outta time      I'm running straight out of time   Just like an old man's fiddle   Lookin' for the dance   Gonna meet me in the middle   I'm never gonna figure out the way that I feel   I"m runnin' straight outta time   But my love's still real      Now I see you   You're lookin' pretty in your summer dress   I can almost feel you   As you clutch your little locket to your breast      Lookin' down   The picture, girl, you know you're lookin' fine   Is it me?   Was I ever in your heart or on your mind?      Cause I'm runnin' outta time   I'm runnin' straight outta time   Were you ever mine?