Runaway

When my heart aches, I'm drowning, pain won't go away And in my cups brown fills my brain, won't go away These five yellow girls all on parade asphyxiate (goddamn) Still stuck in a box tryna clear my name (y'all know the deal) Still trapped in a box tryna clear my name (it's only real) And in my cups brown fills my brain (can't stop me) And in my cups brown fills my brain (can't stop me, yeah) Still trapped in a box tryna clear my name (y'all know the deal) Won't go away (it's only real) I'm afraid (your love) Your love will blow me away (can't stop me, can't stop me, yeah) Am I dumb? (Am I dumb) All 'cause I numb the pain (yeah, yeah) Am I just another runaway? (Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah) Runaway (yeah, Yeah) (Yeah, yeah) (Let's go!) Handsome gangsta, '89-'89 to be exact We owned the block, 16 had two TECs and one MAC Niggas cookin' that work, we thirsty to see it come back Killers and rats, sold crack fiends, where I hung at Drivin' through every borough with young women, I done that Cuban link dreams, chasin' fiends down, these foul Nothin' frisk me, I had the nerve, not even put the weed down These clowns thirsty to squeeze rounds Still trapped in a box tryna clear my name (y'all know the deal) Still trapped in a box tryna clear my name (it's only real) (Oh!) And in my cups brown fills my brain (can't stop me, can't stop me) And in my cups brown fills my brain (yeah) Still trapped in a box tryna clear my name (yeah, yeah) Won't go away (yeah, yeah) I'm afraid (your love) Your love will blow me away (yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah) (Here we go!) Driving 80 miles per hour in the rain Feeling yesterday's high still and it's calming my brain, which is ever moving I still remember shootings, that never moved out my thoughts Blowing by the basketball court, they went to war, it happened All I imagine sometime under sunshine on vacations Things I did in my hood situations, oh well Probably was a bad father to my first born Love her to death, but I ain't been home since my first song Provided for her, but money can't replace her father for her Plus I got a son, blessed with kids, yeah, man, I adore 'em And I was sure I was gonna leave this life too fast I got guardian angels came down and saved my ass Still trapped in a box tryna clear my name (y'all know the deal) Still trapped in a box tryna clear my name (it's only real) And in my cups brown fills my brain (can't stop me, can't stop me) And in my cups brown fills my brain (yeah) (can't stop it) Still trapped in a box tryna clear my name (yeah, yeah) Won't go away (yeah, yeah) I'm afraid (your love) Your love will blow me away (yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah) New York City, stand up! New York City, stand up! Yeah, yeah, yeah It's that Nas That ZaZa That New York That ZaZa That Nas, err Ah Yeah, yeah