Runaway

When my heart aches, I'm drowning, pain won't go away

And in my cups brown fills my brain, won't go away

These five yellow girls all on parade asphyxiate (goddamn)

Still stuck in a box tryna clear my name (y'all know the deal)

Still trapped in a box tryna clear my name (it's only real)

And in my cups brown fills my brain (can't stop me)

And in my cups brown fills my brain (can't stop me, yeah)

Still trapped in a box tryna clear my name (y'all know the deal)

Won't go away (it's only real)

I'm afraid (your love)

Your love will blow me away (can't stop me, can't stop me, yeah)

Am I dumb? (Am I dumb)

All 'cause I numb the pain (yeah, yeah)

Am I just another runaway? (Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah)

Runaway (yeah, Yeah)

(Yeah, yeah) (Let's go!)

Handsome gangsta, '89-'89 to be exact

We owned the block, 16 had two TECs and one MAC

Niggas cookin' that work, we thirsty to see it come back

Killers and rats, sold crack fiends, where I hung at

Drivin' through every borough with young women, I done that

Cuban link dreams, chasin' fiends down, these foul

Nothin' frisk me, I had the nerve, not even put the weed down

These clowns thirsty to squeeze rounds

Still trapped in a box tryna clear my name (y'all know the deal)

Still trapped in a box tryna clear my name (it's only real) (Oh!)

And in my cups brown fills my brain (can't stop me, can't stop me)

And in my cups brown fills my brain (yeah)

Still trapped in a box tryna clear my name (yeah, yeah)

Won't go away (yeah, yeah)

I'm afraid (your love)

Your love will blow me away (yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah)

(Here we go!)

Driving 80 miles per hour in the rain

Feeling yesterday's high still and it's calming my brain, which is ever moving

I still remember shootings, that never moved out my thoughts

Blowing by the basketball court, they went to war, it happened

All I imagine sometime under sunshine on vacations

Things I did in my hood situations, oh well

Probably was a bad father to my first born

Love her to death, but I ain't been home since my first song

Provided for her, but money can't replace her father for her

Plus I got a son, blessed with kids, yeah, man, I adore 'em

And I was sure I was gonna leave this life too fast

I got guardian angels came down and saved my ass

Still trapped in a box tryna clear my name (y'all know the deal)

Still trapped in a box tryna clear my name (it's only real)

And in my cups brown fills my brain (can't stop me, can't stop me)

And in my cups brown fills my brain (yeah) (can't stop it)

Still trapped in a box tryna clear my name (yeah, yeah)

Won't go away (yeah, yeah)

I'm afraid (your love)

Your love will blow me away (yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah)

New York City, stand up!

New York City, stand up!

Yeah, yeah, yeah

It's that Nas

That ZaZa

That New York

That ZaZa

That Nas, err

Ah

Yeah, yeah