Runnin'

Can't keep runnin' away

Can't keep runnin' away

Can't keep runnin' away

Can't keep runnin' away

I must admit on some occasions

I went out like a punk and a chump

Or a sucker or something to that effect

Respect I used to never get

'Cause all I got was upset

When **** used to be like (What's up, fool?)

And tried to sweat a **** like the lip

For no reason at all I can't recall 'cause **** throwing Cs in my face

Down the hall or kicking it in the back of the school, eating chicken at three

Wondering, "Why is everybody always picking on me?"

I tried to talk and tell 'em, chill, I did nothing to deserve this

But when it didn't work I wasn't scared

Just real nervous and unprepared

To deal with scrapping, no doubt

My pappy never told me how to knock a **** out

But now in '95, I must survive as a man on my own

Fuck around with Fatlip, yes, you get blown

I'm not trying to show, no macho is shown

But when it's on, when it's on, then it's on

Can't keep runnin' away

Can't keep runnin' away

Can't keep runnin' away

Can't keep runnin' away

One, two

So listen here (Come on)

There comes a time in every man's life

When he's gotta handle shit up on his own

Can't depend on friends to help you in a squeeze

Please, they got problems of their own

Down for the count on seven chicken shits don't get to Heaven

Till they face these fears and these fear zones

Used to get jacked back up in high school, I played it cool

Just so some real shit won't get full blown

Being where I'm from

They let the smoke come quicker than a evil redneck

Could lynch a helpless colored figure and

As a victim, I invented low-key

Till the keyhole itself got lower than me

So I stood up and let my freeform form free

Said, I'm gonna get some before they knocking out me

I don't sweat it, I let the bullshit blow in the breeze

In other words, just debris, yeah

Can't keep runnin' away

Can't keep runnin' away

Can't keep runnin' away

Can't keep runnin' away

It's 1995

And now that I'm older, stress weighs on my shoulders

Heavy as boulders but I told y'all (Told y'all)

Until the day that I die, I still

Will be a soldier and that's all I told ya

And that's all I showed ya, and that's all I sold ya

And all this calamity is ripping my sanity, can it be

That I'm a celebrity who's on the brink of insanity?

Now don't be wishing of switching any positions with me

'Cause when you in my position, it ain't never easy

To do any type of maintainin'

'Cause all the gamin' and famin' from entertainin'

Is hella straining to the brain and

But I can't keep runnin', I just gotta keep keen and cunnin'

Can't keep runnin' away

Can't keep runnin' away

Can't keep runnin' away

Can't keep runnin' away

Can't keep runnin' away, can't keep runnin' away

Can't keep runnin' away, can't keep runnin' away

Can't keep runnin' away, can't keep runnin' away

Can't keep runnin' away, can't keep runnin' away

Can't keep

Runnin' away, runnin' away, runnin' away

Can't keep

Runnin' away, runnin' away, runnin' away

Can't keep

Runnin' away, runnin' away, runnin' away

Can't keep

Runnin' away, runnin' away, runnin' away