CREDITS
Writers: Mark Paul Smith & Kent Phillips
(© 2026 Mark Paul Smith Publishing ASCAP)
Lead Vocal: Lisa McDavid
Guitar: Kenny Taylor
Drums: Danny Jones
Bass/Organ/Percussion/Piano: Danny Jones
Hand Claps: Danny Jones
Background Vocals: Risa Rene’ Jones
Produced & Mixed by: Danny Jones
Engineers: Shawn Dealy & Danny Jones
Mastered by: Michael Romanowski
Recorded at: Sweetwater Studios, Fort Wayne, IN
and Danny Jones Productions, Katy, TX
Mastered at: Coast Mastering in
Berkeley, California
YOU CAN'T RUN LYRICS
Mark Paul Smith & Kent Phillips
VERSE 1
Sooner or later
I’m gonna catch up to you
I’m gonna find out where you’re livin’
And what you’re tryin’ to do
VERSE 2
Thought you were my man
‘Til I saw you in the park
You were not alone
And it was way after dark
CHORUS
Don’t try to pretend
Our love could ever end
You can’t run
From the one
Who really loves you
I really love you baby
I really love you boy
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CHORUS
ABOUT THE SONG
Mark Paul Smith
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You Can’t Run: Determination mixes with desperation as a woman tries to convince her lover that he “can’t run from love.” She tells him over and over, “I really love you boy,” even as she confronts him with cheating on her. By the end of the song, she conjures up a soulful eruption on the power of love and the pain of losing it.