Runnin'

Summertime in Virginia was a oven (oven)
 All the kids eating ice cream with their cousins (cousins)
 I was studying while you was playing the dozens (dozens)
 Don't act like you was there when you wasn't
 Runnin' from the man (man)
 Runnin' from the badge (badge)
 Don't act like you was there when you wasn't
 Runnin' toward our plans (plans) and the judges hands (hands)
 Don't act like you was there when you wasn't
 I know they say you crawl for your own
 But in my mind I already jog
 If I stand still I cannot get far
 They want the Moon, I'm on Mars
 Sometime my mind dives deep
 When I'm runnin'
 I don't want no free ride
 I'm just sick and tired of runnin'
 Some nights I cry
 Cause I can see the day comin'
 Together we fight
 Oh, but no more runnin'
 
 You and I are not different from each other (other)
 Shut our eyes, when we slumber I see numbers (numbers)
 Black and white, we're computers, I am colored (colored)
 Don't act like you was there when you wasn't
 From runnin' to exams (exams) to jobs for a man (man)
 Don't act like you was there when you wasn't
 In the law of the land (land) the women were often banned (banned)
 Don't act like you was there when you wasn't
 I know they say you crawl for your own
 But in my mind I already jog
 If I stand still I cannot get far
 They want the Moon, I'm on Mars
 Sometime my mind dives deep
 When I'm runnin'
 I don't want no free ride
 I'm just sick and tired of runnin'
 Some nights I cry
 Cause I can see the day comin'
 Together we fight
 Oh, but no more runnin'
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 I know they say you crawl for your own
 But in my mind I already jog
 If I stand still I cannot get far
 They want the Moon, I'm on Mars
 Sometime my mind dives deep
 When I'm runnin'
 I don't want no free ride
 I'm just sick and tired of runnin'
 Some nights I cry
 Cause I can see the day comin'
 Together we fight
 Oh, but no more runnin'
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