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New York City born, bred in Skid Row,
Let me tell you like this
You donโt like the Iโm screaming, you donโt like the way I get high, you donโt like the way I shout?
See that concrete and that gate over there? Get your shit and get the fuck out.
โCause as far as Iโm concerned this homeless peopleโs, and addicts peopleโs house.
So you run up to Gladys park and do your due, watch your mother fucking mouth,
I know some cats that take that as a sign of disrespect, whoo I know some cats right now,
You disrespect this place, theyโll break your fucking neck.
I get tired of some of yโall shitting on Skid Row, feeling like you think weโre soft.
Look, this is a ghetto prayer, for all my friends who ainโt make it there, look.
Heโs in his home, thinking โbout his history,
Like how I got here, is a mystery.
Picturing his past, Pippinโs having flashbacks,
To back when all he had was his black napsack,
Heโs packed again, swearing itโs the last time,
Foster father gave him that look it was a bad sign,
They gonna kick him out bounce around to different homes,
Heโs gonna run away cause heโd rather be alone.
Than be unknown, living with a stranger,
Theyโll treat him like heโs charity, but then theyโll learn to hate him.
No not for me, so they ainโt stopping me, Iโm gonna be free,
They canโt keep me under lock and key.
So in the dead of night, Pippin starts packing up,
Steal some spam and some pepsi so heโll have enough,
Life was rough conceived in grief, heโs misry son,
Scarred, โcause life knocked him hard so itโs time to run.
Heโs exhausted, he roams the streets alone,
Heโs exhausted nobody hears his groans,
Heโs exhausted, he lost it all again, heโs exhausted and all he wants is a home.
Keep running, keep running, oh keep running, keep running
(Heโs the runaway, heโs the runaway, pippen is the runaway)
(Heโs the runaway, heโs the runaway, pippen is the runaway)
Grey skies awake and soar from the concrete he laid in,
He wakes to walk the broad path cause Jesus ainโt save him,
Betrayed by his father, still feels the blade on his face,
Case worker came that day, he ran away and became,
Lifeโs truant, pop pills pop bottles, to get me through it.
I donโt care if it kills me, Iโll be cool when lifeโs concluded,
Escaping through his music, pocket knives and street sages,
Homie lives life sedated heโs only happy if heโs faded,
Born in hell he ainโt created, had a soul, but is vacant
Walking aimless till he is followed in the distance, and heโs shaking,
And baking heโs gonna shake them, he shook emโ and dashes down,
The sewer up the gutter, and makes moves around,
in alley ways he knows, heโs home free past the barbed wire,
the cops fly by,He hides in his church his desires,
To purge himself of the curse that chased him since birth
Not enough holy waters or holy fathers to reverse it,
Disturbed by the models hanging on the ceiling high,
They worship, heโs concealed behind the cross of the Christ,
When the church leaves, he sleeps behind the pews and hides,
Heโs tired of running, Pippenโs wishing he could lose his life.
Heโs exhausted, he roams the streets alone,
Heโs exhausted nobody hears his groans,
Heโs exhausted, he lost it all again,
Heโs exhausted and all he wants is a home.
Keep running, (keep running)
keep running, (keep running)
Oh Keep running (keep running)
Keep running
So he awakens...
to the choir singing hallelujah praise the God of deliverance,
But his furnace excited ignites being burned by his bitterness,
Thinking if God chose concern why Iโm hurting I canโt figure it,
Jesus left me like the rest of them, is the way I come to picture it look,
If you love me, than howโd my pops get by?
With cutting me and cutting out, you tell me why,
I die inside everyday Iโm a shadow with two feet,
Where was you when I was left alone, with no food to eat?
Youโre too weak to stand, answer me, be a man,
Where was you, when I was torching outside that frying pan?
Hell yeah Iโm full of fire, you canโt claim to be messiah,
Than baptize me in this cough and frost,,my life is cold you liar,
Iโm tired of walking this road,Iโm tired of carrying this load.
Iโm the only person on the planet, and all I wants a home,
Iโm sorry Iโm so angry you gotta show me truth through lies,
Iโll OD on these pills and die if you say you canโt sympathize,
He prepares for suicide his hands twist the bottle,
Heโs got pills to kill the pain, he wants no more tomorrows,
He raise his hands and surrender, heโll swallow to end it all,
Behind a whisper says son listen, someone's heard your call.
Heโs exhausted, he roams the streets alone,
Heโs exhausted nobody hears his groans,
Heโs exhausted, and lost it all again,
Heโs exhausted and all he wants is a home.
Keep running, (keep running)
Keep running, (keep running)
Oh keep running,
Keep running.
Heโs exhausted.
Now that yโall feel what Iโm saying, some yโall think that Iโm a joke,
Some people like what Iโm saying, so do me a favor and shut the fuck up and let me flow.