Runnin'

Summertime in Virginia was a oven

All the kids eating ice cream with they cousins

I was studying while you was playing the dozens

Don't act like you was there when you wasn't

Runnin' from the man

Runnin' from the badge

Don't act like you was there when you wasn't

Runnin' toward our plans and the judges hands

Don't act like you was there when you wasn't

I know they say you crawl 'fore you walk

But in my mind I already jog

If I stand still I can not get far

They want the Moon, I'm on Mars

Sometime my mind dives deep

When I'm runnin'

I don't want no free ride

I'm just sick and tired of runnin'

Some nights I cry

'Cause I can see the day comin'

Together we'll fight

Oh, but no more runnin'

You and I aren't that different from each other

Shut our eyes, when we slumber I see numbers

Black and white, we're computers, I am colored

Don't act like you was there when you wasn't

From runnin' to exams to jobs for a man

Don't act like you was there when you wasn't

In the law of the land the women were often banned

Don't act like you was there when you wasn't

I know they say you crawl 'fore you walk

But in my mind I already jog

If I stand still I can not get far

They want the Moon, I'm on Mars

Sometime my mind dives deep

When I'm runnin'

I don't want no free ride

I'm just sick and tired of runnin'

Some nights I cry

'Cause I can see the day comin'

Together we fight

Oh, but no more runnin'

I know they say you crawl 'fore you walk

But in my mind I already jog

If I stand still I can not get far

They want the Moon, I'm on Mars

Sometime my mind dives deep

When I'm runnin'

I don't want no free ride

I'm just sick and tired of runnin'

Some nights I cry

'Cause I can see the day comin'

Together we fight

Oh, but no more runnin'

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