Runaway

Song Runaway
Artist J. Cole
Album Born Sinner (Deluxe Version)

Lyrics

[00:00.87] Married men act totally different
[00:01.73] When they're by themselves, don't they?
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[00:04.48] You see them with their wife, like, "what's up Tony
[00:06.23] " Hey man, how's everything going brother?"
[00:07.36] "Just taking it easy, hanging out with the lady"
[00:10.85] "Alright, take it easy now, God bless you"
[00:12.46]
[00:15.22] You be like that nigga ain't like that
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[00:20.20] You see him by himself, "What's up Tony?"
[00:22.02] "Hey, yo, where's the bitches at, nigga?"
[00:23.52]
[00:27.76] Yeah, give me my space
[00:29.06] Lord ain't enough time to chase all these dreams
[00:31.75] I mean I got no time to wait
[00:33.38] Love my girl but told her straight up "don't wait up"
[00:36.06] Stumble home late, I'm drunk, we f**ked the maid up
[00:38.93] Used to live free as a bird, now I'm laid up
[00:41.36] Feeling like a nigga got handcuffs on
[00:43.36] How the f**k did my life become a damn love song?
[00:46.16] She ride for a nigga and she stand up for him
[00:48.97] But a nigga wanna be a nigga, be a nigga
[00:51.65] Ride through the streets with freaks and real niggas
[00:53.86] She never understand what it's like to be a man
[00:56.36] Knowing when you look inside yourself you see a nigga
[00:59.16] And you don't wanna let her down
[01:00.10] But you too young for the settle down
[01:03.97] And maybe you can thug it out, learn what is love about
[01:06.33] When you can't live with it and live without
[01:08.45] Oh shit, goddamn, I think the devil got his hands on me
[01:12.40] Stripper saying: "Baby, why don't you throw these bands on me?"
[01:15.65] And I came to spend, she pop a molly
[01:17.21] Let the motherf**king games begin
[01:18.95]
[01:19.72] I'm running
[01:20.77] Runaway, runaway, runaway, runaway
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[01:26.08] I'm holding on desperately
[01:28.20]
[01:30.94] Runaway, runaway, runaway, runaway
[01:34.18]
[01:35.62] I'm holding on
[01:37.62] When it's all said and done everybody dies
[01:39.31]
[01:39.93] In this life ain't no happy endings
[01:41.87] Only pure beginnings followed
[01:42.81] By years of sinning and fake repentance
[01:44.43] The preacher says we were made in image of law
[01:47.66] To which I replied: "Are you sure?
[01:49.84] Even the murderer? Even the whore?
[01:52.22] Even the nigga running through bitches on tour?"
[01:54.40] With a good girl at home folding clothes and shit
[01:56.97] She losing faith in him and he knows and shit
[01:59.58] Like what the f**k is a break
[02:00.74] Don't know how much I can take no more
[02:02.76] I give you all I got till it ain't no more
[02:05.44] No more tears it's been ten long years, damn near
[02:08.63] I don't know if I can wait no more, and who can blame her
[02:11.97] You complaining 'bout every time you out
[02:13.93] You come back she paow
[02:15.33] Sleeping back to back, this is wack
[02:17.44] We 'bout to go platinum in a minute, crib acting out
[02:20.27] My childhood fantasies of wife and home
[02:22.75] But it's a whole lot of actresses I'd like to bone
[02:24.80]
[02:25.63] And despite the rumors you hold out on account the guilt
[02:28.25] She's has got to spend her nights alone
[02:30.94] And she ride or die like Eve and 'em
[02:33.42] Make home cooked meals every evening
[02:35.11]
[02:35.80] And even then your lowest days your lowest days
[02:39.05] When you no Superman at least you got your Lois Lane
[02:40.86] But you...
[02:41.92] Runaway, runaway, runaway, runaway
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[02:47.72] I'm holding on desperately
[02:50.16]
[02:52.52] Runaway, runaway, runaway, runaway
[02:55.91]
[02:58.14] I'm holding on
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[03:00.33] Yeah, unbelievable seen evil that not even Knievel know
[03:04.58] At age 3 I knew this world was three below
[03:06.94] Listen, even know my ego low achieved the unachievable
[03:09.50] Imagine if my confidence was halfway decent, yo
[03:11.88] This just in, f**ked more bitches than Bieber though
[03:14.50] Still I keep it low, got my niggas on the need to know
[03:17.11] Basis, my manager back in the day was racist
[03:19.42] I was a young boy, passing skate and tucking laces
[03:21.80] Old perverted white man who told me:
[03:23.53] "Jermaine, It's all pink on the inside
[03:25.91] F**k what color their face is
[03:26.79] Wise words from an indecent man
[03:29.22] Made me reflect on the times
[03:30.52] When we was three fifths of them
[03:31.97] And change empower less
[03:32.82] Brave souls reduce the cowardness
[03:33.97] Slaving in the baking sun for hours
[03:37.27] Just to see the master creep into
[03:38.39] The shack where your lady at
[03:40.96] Nine months later got a baby
[03:42.01] That not quite what you excepted
[03:43.82]
[03:44.69] But you refuse to neglect it
[03:45.96] 'Cause you know your wifey love you
[03:48.30] Does you refuse to accept it?
[03:50.80] That's that type shit tell why my granny light skin
[03:52.99] Rich white man rule the nation still
[03:54.38] Only difference is we all slaves know
[03:56.91] The change concealed in our thoughts
[03:58.03] If I follow my heart to save myself
[04:00.10] Could I run away from 50 mill like Dave Chappell?
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[04:03.71] Runaway, runaway, runaway, runaway
[04:06.51]
[04:09.44] I'm holding on desperately
[04:11.75] Runaway, runaway, runaway, runaway
[04:17.25]
[04:18.98] I'm holding on