Running Lyrics

I'm running, running, running, running

I gotta keep going 'cause I know that something's coming, so I

I'm running, running, running, running

I gotta keep going 'cause I know that something's coming

But when I'm tryna walk, they telling me I should crawl

Before I can ever jump, they planning on me to fall, so I'm (So I'm)

I'm running, running, running, running

I gotta keep going 'cause I know that something's coming, so I

It's middle school, rocking braces and less cool

Awkwardly standing out but still fitting in with my dudes

I'm rocking them hand-me-downs while they copping the latest shoes

Just a boy that ran with the giants like I'm training with Victor Cruz, I'm

Avoiding them pitfalls, quick lick calls

You know those flip bricks quick, get lit calls? Yeah

My older cousins was tussling in that struggle

They stayed moving that weight, guess that's getting it off the muscle

See, some see 'em as clowns from all the things they would juggle

Like murder, prison, and hurting the woman who truly love you, so

Auntie Jann, I understand you had a plan

Never thought you see your kids in cuffs and thrown in back of vans

Life give high demands, but you paid 'em with them tears

Even though it can't reverse the pain you suffered through them years

You spent your whole life just to show 'em the ropes

Now they strung up in them ropes and in prisons they whole life, man

But my advantage, took them lessons then I learned

Adolescent, I'm progressing with no pressing for concern

Yeah

And my confession that I earned

How I lived in that fire and was blessed to not get burned

But whom much is given, much is asked in return

And from my peer's position, a better life I would yearn

You know better, do better

Broke the seal off what I address while forming this open letter

And cc my brother's son and cc my sister's daughter

And cc to anybody living they life as a martyr

This dedicated to Trey, I wish I would've called ya

Tell ya put them packs down, there's a way to hustle smarter

But I know I missed my chance, now only God got 'em

'Cause the week he planned to quit was the week somebody shot him

I'm running, I'm running, running, running

I can never sit still, if I do then nothing's coming

This still life, still smoking, still drinking

Still staying alive

Still taking care of children or whatever

Still strapped

We just still, we just still

Ah, ah, ah, yeah

Ah, ah, now bounce (Now bounce)

Ah, ah, na, yeah

Ah, ah, now bounce (Now bounce)

Ah, ah, ah, yeah

Ah, ah, now bounce (Now bounce)

Look, aye, aye

Fast forward to the days of the Lakeland High

Shouts out to the class of '07, show love

To this man that you see here now

Working hard to be the next dude to blow, oh reverend

At the time, was confined to them hoop dreams

Within them lines, I would grind just to prove things

Balling was a new scheme, it was a drug, can't lie

Game sold me things that the money can't buy

Late nights at Beef's, as I reflect on goals that I've reached

My homie Zack told me, ain't nobody can hold me

"You the man in the city as we speak

Believe me you the one, I ain't talking Matrix

Stripes you done earned, I ain't talking Asics

No matter where you run, ain't no way to escape it"

So no pacing, I'm chasing, and racing to make it, I

Elevated to a level celebrated, my endeavors graduated to a point

And selfish pride infiltrated what my elders demonstrated

Now my eyes insinuating what I want

What I want, want, to be the one

Running for us all when it's all said and done

Living life fast, knowing danger as I come

Pedal to the metal like O.J. on the run, hold that

Man, what I'm becoming

The allure of this world's so becoming

Got the devil in my ear saying, "Look at all this here"

And I'm on board like I'm Andre Drummond

Vanity and greed, vandalizing my creed

Dodged it all before, but now it's all I see

Now I feel consumed, so I'm steady tryna flee

But who I run from when it's all in me

In the mirror tryna find myself, I was lost, had to remind myself

It don't matter if I'm broke with no paddle left to float

All the money in the world couldn't buy my wealth

And so I'm better now

And that's word to Ms. Joyce, I could never let her down

She telling me to go for it

In a dope pair of Nikes like go Forrest

And I'm running

Running, running, running, running

Running, running, running, running

I swear I say a oath for it

And my dreams too far, never coast for it

So I'm running

Running, running, running, running

Running, running, running, running

She telling me to go for it

In a dope pair of Nikes like go Forrest

And I'm running