Run

... You know how I see it, Jah Diggs? We're trying to run from
Something. Running, getting out, something dark and deeper
Something's right here on the surface. Just like that. Ah
I'm sick of it, sick of that shit. We stay, we stay running

Yo, uh, a story line for a planet set to fall apart
The passion start, trying to look beyond the stars
Penning bars as I glance at the hourglass
Time slipping, watching heads running past
On a fast path, journey set to nowhere
I stand firm while the rest are all running scared
And laugh at the arrogant minds of these half-wits
Who run from the light of real life when the dawn hits
Brain dead, getting buried in technology
Silver tongue honesty and false fed prophecies

City dweller putting fire in my belly
Walking with the drones that are only here physically

It's like we're all on a running track
Doing lap after lap, never looking back
Life's a strange blend, and so I grip the pen
Then deliver like anthrax to number ten

We stay running, we stay running, we stay
We stay running, we stay running, we stay
We stay running, we stay running, we stay
We stay running, we stay running, we stay

Silhouettes of a life with no introspect
Sipping drinks out a can or whatever's left
Trying to jet from this maze of depravity

Like cellar dwellers in these realms of reality
With right wing clap trap nourishing the weak mind

Got 'em running for the hills from another kind
Truth defined in a lie they want belief in
The quicker route to escape proper meaning
Me, I'm not afraid, and trust man I'll never be
From human animosity to time, it can kill me
That's indiscriminate, that's always imminent
But living life by a book is more sinister
Falsehoods drive the mind of the listener
It's kind of militant how lies can imprison ya

I sip liquor 'til my mind stays spinning
But never run from the clarity of true vision, nah

We stay running, we stay running, we stay
We stay running, we stay running, we stay
We stay running, we stay running, we stay
We stay running, we stay running, we stay running

Yeah, we stay running (Stay running)
We all trying to (Escape)
Find that escapism (Escapism)
No matter what it might be (Yeah)
We stay running (Too hard to accept)
We stay running (We stay jamming)
We stay running (Stay running, oh!)

... Compared to what was inspired by the right wing push toward
Um, globalization and privatization, etcetera, etcetera, kind
Of acing out the normal people in the world like myself and you
So I started writing about it. I didn't even know anybody was
Gonna be interested in it. But it's okay, I appreciate it
Believe me, because, uh, my actual survival was on the line, you see?
Always have!