RUNNING IN PLACE

Just turned twenty-one when Aunt Isha called me

She's talkin' 'bout who my father was

Thought it was another what my momma told me

Sometimes the lies come out of love

It don't mean nothing when you take the blame

If I don't know where I'm from

It don't mean nothing when you say my name

If I'm not my father's son

Lord, take me away

I'm burning in shame

I'm running in place

They call me Ricky's boy like it's old me

Grew up had to get it all out the mud

When I looked into his eyes, man, the truth it destroyed me

'Cause now I really know who's in my blood

It don't mean nothing when you take the blame

If I don't know where I'm from

It don't mean nothing when you say my name

If I'm not my father's son

It don't mean nothing if you can't forgive

All his wrongs from the start

Maybe that man was just trying to live with a broken heart

Lord, take me away

I'm burning in shame

I'm running in place

It don't mean nothing when you take the blame

If I don't know where I'm from

It don't mean nothing when you say my name

If I'm not my father's son

It don't mean nothing if you can't forgive

All his wrongs from the start

Maybe that man was just trying to live with a broken heart

Lord, take me away

I'm burning in shame

I'm running in place