Lyrics for When Dogs Run Away by Stewart Lindsey from the album Spitballin

Look out your window
Tell me what you see
I see a little dog struggling to believe
The people inside are a family at all
There’s a picture of happiness but it ain’t on their wall

Looking a little more
Here’s what I saw
Two people waiting
For their attorney to call
Passing one another in the kitchen once more
They don’t want to see each other anymore

When dogs run away
People get divorced
Country songs are written
And children make a choice
To go with their mothers
Or to go with their fathers
The dog don’t even try
No he don’t even bother

Look on the porch
What’s sittin right there
An empty dog bowl by an old rockin chair
That once geld food for a dog they love
But now that he’s gone they’ve had enough

When dogs run away
People get divorced
Country songs are written
And children make a choice
To go with their mothers
Or to go with their fathers
The dog don’t even try
No he don’t even bother
When dogs run away
People get divorced
Country songs are written
And children make a choice

When dogs run way
People separate
Lifetimes of loving end in hate