Runnin´-The Pharcyde

[00:24.96]Can't keep runnin' away [00:28.83] [00:29.71]Can't keep runnin' away [00:32.26] [00:34.88]Can't keep runnin' away [00:38.88] [00:39.75]Can't keep runnin' away [00:44.12] [00:45.31]I must admit on some occasions I went out like a punk [00:47.80]And a chump or a sucka or something to that effect [00:50.55]Respect I usedto never get when all I got was upset [00:52.79]When ****** use to be like 'What's up fool ' and tried [00:55.29]To seat a ***** like the Lip for no reason at all I can [00:58.16]Recall crip ****** throwin' c in my face down the hall [01:00.97]I'm kickin' it in the back of the school eatin' chicken at [01:03.59]Three wonderin' why is everybody always pickin' on me [01:06.21]I tried to talk and tell tham chill I did nothing to deserve [01:08.83]This But when it didn't work I wasn't scared just real [01:11.26]Nervous and unprepared to deal with scrappin' no doubt [01:13.45]Cuz my pappy never told me how to knock a ***** out [01:16.36]But now must in survive 95 as I a man on my own **** [01:19.44]Around with Fatlip yes ya get blown I'm not tryin to show [01:23.18]No macho is shown but when it's on if it's on then it's on [01:26.39]Keep Can't runnin' away There comes a time in every mans life when he's gotta [01:55.15]Up handle on his own Can't depend on friends to [01:57.34]Help you in a sqeeze please they got problems of their [02:00.15] [02:00.78]Own Down for the count on seven chickens ****s don't [02:04.33]Get to heaven til they faced these fears in these fear [02:06.95]Zones Used to get jacked back in high school I played [02:09.26]It cool just so some real shit won't get full blown Being [02:12.07]Where I'm from they let the smoke come quicker than an [02:15.45]Evil red-neck could lynch a helpless colored figure And [02:17.50]As a victim I invented low-key til the keyhole itself got [02:21.31]Lower than me So I stood up and let my free form form [02:24.92]Free I don't sweat it I let the ******** blow in the breeze [02:31.42]In other words just freeze Can't keep runnin' away [02:34.85] [03:02.68]It's 1995 now that I'm older stress weighs on my shoulders [03:06.31]Heavy as boulders but I told ya [03:08.68]Till the day that I die I still will be a soldier and that's all I told [03:12.67]Ya and that's all I showed ya [03:14.86]And all this calamity is rippin' my sanity [03:17.35]Can it be I'm a celebrity [03:20.28]Whose on the brink of insanity [03:22.84]Now don't be wishin's of switchin' any positions with me [03:24.90]Cuz when you in my position it ain't never easy [03:27.09]To do any type of maintaining cuz all this gaming and famin' from [03:30.49]Entertainin' is hella straining to the brain and [03:33.73] [03:34.31]But I can't keep runnin I just gotta keep keen and cunnin' Can't keep runnin' away